Oracle has announced an expansion of its partnership with AMD at its annual AI World conference, revealing that it will be 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 across its Helios rack architecture, including the MI450 GPUs, next-generation AMD EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs and Pensando ‘Vulcano’ networking.
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The message at AI World 2025 has been clear – the company’s commitment is to bring AI to you and your data, not the other way around. This has given the company quite an opportunity to open up with third parties, mate with rival hyperscalers for cloud hosting and maintain multiple options for chip vendors, all 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 given. Oracle will also provide up to three 800 Gbps ‘Vulcano’ AI-NICs per GPU, and these GPUs will provide up to 432 GB of HBM4 and 20 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
Oracle boasted that the latest configuration will allow customers to train and derive models 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 EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan said the continued partnership with AMD responds to customer demands for “robust, scalable and high-performance infrastructure” with “the best price-performance, open, secure and scalable cloud foundation.”
AMD stock rose about 8.7% the day after the announcement.
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