Oracle and AMD ink new deal for AI chips
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The news: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are expanding their partnership to bring online a data-centre cluster that will use tens of thousands of AMD’s new AI chips.
The numbers: AMD plans to deploy 50,000 of its MI450 chips, its most advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) in Oracle-run data centres from Q3 2026. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.
The context: The partnership expansion is the latest indication that cloud firms are looking to AMD GPUs as alternatives to Nvidia’s chips for AI.
The MI450 chips, announced earlier this year, are AMD’s first AI chips that can be assembled into a larger rack-sized system that allows 72 of the chips to work as one. This is necessary for creating and deploying the most advanced AI algorithms.
The two companies added that they plan to expand their partnership in 2027 and beyond.
AMD and Oracle have been pursuing deals as the AI race continues to intensify and firms scramble to secure the compute-power necessary to meet rising demand.
What they said: “Our customers are building some of the world’s most ambitious AI applications, and that requires robust, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The source: Oracle press release
