Svmuu News: AMD has officially launched Helios, its first rack-scale AI system designed for artificial intelligence. Viewed as a key product for AMD to compete with NVIDIA’s Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin AI systems, Helios has been adopted by enterprise customers such as Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle, as AMD seeks to challenge NVIDIA more directly in the AI infrastructure market.
Microsofthas announced it will deploy the AMD Helios system in its Azure data centers, becoming the latest customer to adopt the platform. AMD stated that Helios is expected to begin shipping to customers later this year and will be used to support cutting-edge AI model inference, Azure AI services, and enterprise-grade AI applications.Data from market research firm Futurum Group shows that NVIDIA. currently holds more than 95% of the data center GPU market, while AMD accounts for approximately 4.5%.Analysts believe that if the deployment of Helios goes smoothly, AMD could have the opportunity to capture a 20%–25% market share in the future, representing a potential market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. (CNBC)