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AMD embraces Meta-backed Open Rack Wide form factor with new MI450-powered Helios racks – Oracle is the first big client with a 50,000 GPU commitment, with more to come

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Projected 1.4 exaFLOPS shows Helios targets massive AI compute power
Meta’s ORW design sets a new direction for data center openness
AMD pushes silicon-to-rack openness, though industry neutrality remains uncertain
Liquid cooling and Ethernet fabric highlight the system’s serviceability focus
At the recent 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, AMD presented its “Helios” rack-scale platform, built on Meta’s newly introduced Open Rack Wide (ORW) standard.
The design was described as an open, double-wide framework that aims to improve power efficiency, cooling, and serviceability for artificial intelligence systems.
AMD positions “Helios” as a major step toward open and interoperable data center infrastructure, but how much this openness translates into practical industry-wide adoption remains to be seen.Meta’s role in shaping the new rack design
Meta contributed the ORW specification to the OCP community, describing it as a foundation for large-scale AI data centers.
The new form factor was developed to address the growing demand for standardized hardware architectures.
AMD’s “Helios” appears to serve as a test case for this concept, blending Meta’s open-rack principles with AMD’s own hardware.

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