Overview

• The company publicly displayed a static Helios rack in San Jose built to Meta’s new Open Rack Wide double-wide specification for gigawatt-scale data centers.
• Helios combines AMD Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and Pensando networking with open fabrics, integrating OCP DC-MHS, UALink and Ultra Ethernet Consortium architectures.
• The design features quick-disconnect liquid cooling, a serviceable double-wide layout and standards-based Ethernet intended to provide multi-path resiliency.
• AMD describes Helios as an open, standards-based reference platform for OEMs, ODMs and hyperscalers to adopt and customize to speed AI infrastructure deployment.
• AMD did not disclose detailed specifications, performance metrics or availability, and outside reports on component choices and competitive positioning remain unconfirmed by the company.