
After three decades of gradual adoption, cloud providers are now offering CPU‑only HPC instances that can compete with on‑premise clusters. Amazon Web Services introduced the HPC8a family, built on AMD’s latest Turin EPYC 9R15 processors and delivering 192 physical cores across two sockets. By disabling simultaneous multithreading and increasing memory‑controller count with DDR5, the HPC8a achieves up to 40 % more memory‑bandwidth‑limited performance than the previous Genoa‑based HPC7a. AWS also retains the 300 Gb/s EFA‑2 network, while pricing reflects a 25 % price‑performance advantage.

AMD announced that its first rack‑scale AI system, code‑named Helios, will ship engineering samples in the second half of 2026 and enter volume production by early 2027. The platform will use the Altair MI400 series GPUs—including MI455X, MI430X and MI450—offering...

The AI boom has turned flash storage into a bottleneck, with demand far outpacing the limited capacity of fabs operated by Samsung, Kioxia, Micron, Solidigm and others. Prices for flash drives have jumped 50‑70% since 2023 as hyperscalers and AI...