New Delhi, July 20 -- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is taking its biggest step yet in challenging Nvidia's dominance in artificial intelligence hardware, with the chipmaker preparing to begin shipments of its first rack-scale AI system, Helios, later this year. Microsoft has now joined a growing roster of customers adopting the platform, signalling increased competition in the AI infrastructure market.

Helios marks AMD's first direct competitor to Nvidia's highly sought-after Grace Blackwell and next-generation Vera Rubin AI systems. The launch comes after more than a decade of AMD's resurgence and represents the company's strongest attempt to capture a larger share of the booming AI computing market.

On Monday, Microsoft announced that ...