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At OCP Global Summit, AMD announced Helion, a CPU-centric AI data center compute infrastructure design for running large numbers of AI agents simultaneously. Unlike Helios, which stacks large numbers of GPUs, this design targets the CPU demands created by agents repeatedly executing programs and accessing databases. A configuration for large data center operators can hold up to 32,768 sixth-generation EPYC Venice CPU cores in a single rack, with model inference requests handed off to separate GPU systems; the enterprise configuration places EPYC CPUs and Instinct MI350P GPUs in the same rack, holding up to 16 GPUs, and integrates a token router that routes requests to high-performance models or self-hosted open-source models to lower AI operating costs. AMD will offer Helion as an open reference design and contribute the specification to OCP; eight server vendors including Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro are developing related systems, with launch planned for November.
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AMD Executive Discusses How Agentic AI Is Driving Up Server CPU Demand
Derek Dicker, Vice President of AMD's Enterprise Business Group, said in an interview that agentic AI has the CPU handle orchestration of tools, APIs, databases, and runtime environments, and in some deployments the CPU-to-GPU ratio has approached 1:1. AMD recently announced Helion, a rack-scale solution for agentic AI infrastructure; its CPU-only configuration is based on sixth-generation EPYC processors and supports up to 32,768 cores. Mercury Research data shows that in the second quarter of 2026, AMD accounted for 34.5% of x86 server processor shipments, while Intel accounted for 65.5%; in the data center comparison between EPYC and Xeon SP, AMD's share was 46.4%.