AMD Unveils Helion Racks With 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC Cores For Agentic AI

Remember the Helios AI rack? Of course you do. That's AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most customers aren't doing that. The hot new thing now is agentic AI, and AMD's new Helion platform is directly targeted at those workloads.

Helion is smaller than Helios, being built in the standard OpenRack v3 form factor instead of the Open Rack Wide (ORW) form factor created by Meta. Both are different from classic 19-inch racks; OpenRack is 21" wide inside and roughly 24" outside; ORW is 48" wide outside, so it is essentially double-wide. OpenRack v3/v4 happens to be the same standard NVIDIA uses for its NVL72 rack systems, as the MGX architecture those are built on is also part of OCP.

Helion can...

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