Advanced Micro Devices Expands Meta AI Deal: 6GW Instinct GPU Plan, Custom MI450 and 160M-Share Warrant

Initial shipments supporting what AMD called the first gigawatt deployment are scheduled to begin in the second half of 2026. Su said the deployment will leverage AMD’s Helios rack-scale architecture, the custom MI450-based Instinct GPU, and AMD’s 6th Gen EPYC CPU, code-named Venice.A key element of the expanded relationship is co-engineering a custom GPU accelerator based on AMD’s MI450 architecture, optimized for Meta’s workloads. Su characterized the project as AMD’s first custom GPU effort of this style ...