Advancing AI 2026 was AMD’s biggest launch event yet, big enough that we split our coverage in two. Our first article covered the Instinct MI455X and the 72-GPU Helios rack; this sister piece covers what could not comfortably fit alongside them: the 6th Gen EPYC server CPUs, codenamed Venice, and the Verano host processor. The

AMD hosted its largest Advancing AI event to date, emphasizing scale as a central theme. The company introduced the Instinct MI455X GPU, the 72-GPU Helios rack, and the 6th Generation EPYC Venice CPUs. The MI455X features 432GB of HBM4, a 50% increase over NVIDIA’s B300 or Rubin, with 23.3TB/s of memory bandwidth and up to

Dell sent us four Pro laptops this cycle, covering two sizes, two product tiers, and both AMD and Intel platforms. The two Pro 5 models approach the business-laptop formula from different directions: the Pro 5 16 AMD uses a larger chassis, replaceable DDR5 memory, and the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470, while the compact

Enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted from optimizing training models to serving them, and that changes the economics. Training is a capital project with an endpoint. Inference is a production workload that runs as long as the service is live, with output measured in tokens. This is the tokenomics problem now facing AI operators: once the

The Dell Pro 5 16 is the large-screen entry in Dell’s commercial Pro laptop line, and the one that leads on value rather than portability. Our review unit pairs the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 470 (12 cores, 24 threads, 55 TOPS NPU) with AMD Radeon 890M integrated graphics, 64 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM,

Wasabi Technologies and Megaport Limited have entered a strategic partnership to add Wasabi cloud object storage to Megaport Storage. The integration combines Wasabi’s object storage platform with Megaport’s private global network, targeting AI data platforms, analytics environments, cyber resilience workflows, and other large-scale cloud storage use cases. The service is available through the Megaport platform

Chelsio Communications has introduced its seventh-generation AI Interconnect Platform, expanding its Ethernet offload portfolio with SmartNICs, storage controllers, and Data Processing Units. Built on the company’s Unified Wire architecture, the T7 platform targets AI training and inference clusters, disaggregated storage, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance networking environments. The platform supports Ethernet speeds from 1GbE through 400GbE

WEKA has launched two connected products: NeuralMesh 6, its most significant software release to date, and WEKApod 3, a new generation of storage appliances designed and engineered by WEKA to run it. NeuralMesh 6 remains deployable on customer-selected hardware, while WEKApod provides the turnkey path, shipping with the software preinstalled. NeuralMesh 6 introduces native multi-tenancy,

AMD has expanded its strategic partnership with Microsoft to cover GPUs, CPUs, networking, and software across Azure infrastructure. The collaboration includes Microsoft’s planned deployment of AMD’s Helios Rackscale Solution for AI inference workloads supporting frontier models, Azure AI services, and customer applications. The deployment makes Microsoft the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to Helios at