AMD Unveils Helios Rack-Scale AI Platform and Instinct MI455X at CES 2026

Summary

At CES 2026, AMD publicly demonstrated its next-generation data center AI hardware stack for the first time, including the Helios rack-scale platform, the Instinct MI455X GPU accelerator, and the EPYC Venice CPU based on the Zen 6 architecture. The Helios platform is a double-wide rack designed for "yotta-scale" AI infrastructure, delivering up to 3 AI exaflops of performance per rack through 18 compute trays housing a total of 72 MI455X GPUs and 18 Venice CPUs. Each MI455X accelerator delivers