AMD said on April 9, 2025 that its Pensando Pollara 400 AI NIC was available for purchase, moving the 400G programmable Ethernet component past sampling.

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AMD OpenAI AI accelerators capacity planning

AMD and OpenAI’s six-gigawatt agreement was a deployment plan, not installed capacity

AMD and OpenAI announced a six-gigawatt strategic partnership on October 6, 2025, with an initial MI450 deployment planned for the second half of 2026.

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AMD ROCm accelerators AI software

ROCm 7.0 turned a software-stack release into an accelerator compatibility event

AMD released ROCm 7.0.0 on September 16, 2025, making the software layer around supported accelerators, frameworks, drivers and operating systems the event.

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AMD MI350 CDNA 4 AI infrastructure

AMD’s MI350 launch made memory, cooling and software part of the comparison

AMD launched its MI350 Series in June 2025 with CDNA 4, 288GB HBM3E and air- or liquid-cooled configurations, making rack design central to any performance claim.

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AMD Ryzen AI Max AI PCs local inference

AMD’s Ryzen AI Max announcement concentrated CPU, graphics and NPU resources in one mobile package

AMD announced Ryzen AI Max processors on January 6, 2025, combining up to 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 40 graphics units and a 50-TOPS NPU.

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