Oracle announced an expansion of its partnership with AMD at its annual AI World conference, revealing that it will become the first hyperscaler to offer a publicly available supercluster powered by 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 series GPUs.
The two companies already have a long-standing partnership and this news builds on previous implementations using AMD’s MI300X and MI355X GPUs.
The supercluster will feature a full suite of AMD components in its Helios rack architecture, including MI450 GPUs, next-generation AMD EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs and the Pensando ‘Vulcano’ network.
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The message at AI World 2025 has been clear: the company’s commitment is to bring AI closer to you and your data, not the other way around. This has presented the company with quite an opportunity to open up to third parties, partnering with rival hyperscalers for cloud hosting and maintaining multiple chip supplier options, all of which are designed to give the customer choice.
The latest Helios racks offer a dense, liquid-cooled design to support up to 72 GPUs per rack; The usual promises of low latency are also made. Oracle will also provide up to three 800Gbps ‘Vulcan’ AI-NICs per GPU, and those GPUs will provide up to 432GB of HBM4 and 20TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Oracle boasted that the latest setup will allow customers to train and infer models that are 50% larger than previous generations.
At the same time, OCI has also announced the general availability of OCI Compute with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, with up to 131,072 of them available in the zettascale Supercluster.
OCI Executive Vice President Mahesh Thiagarajan said the continued partnership with AMD addresses customer demands for a “robust, scalable, high-performance infrastructure” with “the best price-performance open, secure, and scalable cloud foundation.”
AMD shares rose about 8.7% the day after the announcement.
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