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Could AMD be the key to Microsoft’s fabulous $100 billion Stargate AI supercomputer? AMD EVP lets slip about plans for a million-plus GPU training cluster based on a future MI500 chip — but stays mum on customer

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Could AMD be the key to Microsoft’s fabulous 0 billion Stargate AI supercomputer? AMD EVP lets slip about plans for a million-plus GPU training cluster based on a future MI500 chip — but stays mum on customer

We previously revealed how Microsoft and OpenAI are rumored to be collaborating on a groundbreaking data center project named ‘Stargate,’ set to launch by 2028. Financed by Microsoft to the tune of over $100 billion, the project aims to reduce the companies’ reliance on Nvidia – something many tech giants involved in AI are looking to do these days.

Back in April, The Next Platform said this AI supercomputer would likely be “based on future generations of Cobalt Arm server processors and Maia XPUs, with Ethernet scaling to hundreds of thousands to 1 million XPUs in a single machine.”

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