AMD Unveils Helion Racks With 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC Cores For Agentic AI
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AMD Unveils Helion Racks With 32,768 Zen 6 EPYC Cores For Agentic AI by Zak Killian - Monday, October 12, 2026, 05:16 PM EDT Comments AMD Helion Enterprise and Hyperscale Agentic AI racks. - Image: AMD Remember the Helios AI rack? Of course you do. That's AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most customers aren't doing that. The hot new thing now is agentic AI, and AMD's new Helion platform is directly targeted at those workloads. Two views of AMD Helion next to the larger Helios rack. - Image: AMD Helion is smaller than Helios, being built in the standard OpenRack v3 form factor instead of the Open Rack Wide (ORW) form factor created by Meta. Both are different from classic 19-inch racks; OpenRack is 21" wide inside and roughly 24" outside; ORW is 48" wide outside, so it is essentially double-wide. OpenRack v3/v4 happens to be the same standard NVIDIA uses for its NVL72 rack systems, as the MGX architecture those are built on is also part of OCP. AMD Helion General Specifications - Image: AMD Helion can fit in the smaller racks because it is targeted at agentic workloads, which are much less GPU-heavy than familiar generative AI tasks like image generation. While those kinds of tasks are...
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The firm says it plans for Helion to be available from its ecosystem partners next month.
