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Rackspace bets on AMD-powered AI cloud, lifting shares
business1 month ago

Rackspace bets on AMD-powered AI cloud, lifting shares

Rackspace Technology finalized a deal to power its AI cloud with AMD hardware, making AMD Instinct GPUs and EPYC CPUs the main components and rolling out 30 megawatts of capacity by 2028 as the company pivots to managed AI cloud services. The move accompanies a 15% global workforce realignment, and comes as Rackspace has surged about 500% in 2026; the news spurred intraday stock gains (though AMD slid on the day) and follows other AI partnerships with Palantir, underscoring the company’s push into AI cloud offerings.

Meta and AMD Forge Long-Term AI Compute Partnership
technology5 months ago

Meta and AMD Forge Long-Term AI Compute Partnership

Meta and AMD announced a multi-year agreement to power Meta's AI infrastructure with up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, aligning roadmaps across silicon, systems and software as part of Meta Compute; shipments for the first deployments begin in H2 2026 on the Helios rack-scale architecture, marking a diversification of Meta's AI compute stack and accelerating its personal AI ambitions.

AMD and Meta Ink Pact to Scale AI Compute to 6 Gigawatts of GPUs
technology5 months ago

AMD and Meta Ink Pact to Scale AI Compute to 6 Gigawatts of GPUs

AMD and Meta expand their multi-year collaboration to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs for Meta’s AI infrastructure, with the first gigawatt deployment beginning in the second half of 2026 using a MI450-based GPU built on the Helios rack-scale architecture; the agreement aligns silicon, systems and software roadmaps across Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs (Venice and Verano) and ROCm, and includes a performance-based warrant for up to 160 million AMD shares tied to milestones.