AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su looks on, connected the time of a gathering of the White House Task Force connected Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education successful the East Room astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure connected Tuesday announced that it volition deploy 50,000 Advanced Micro Devices graphics processors starting successful the 2nd fractional of 2026.
The determination is the latest motion that unreality companies are progressively offering AMD's GPUs arsenic an alternate to Nvidia's market-leading GPUs for artificial intelligence.
"We consciousness similar customers are going to instrumentality up AMD very, precise good — particularly successful the inferencing space," Karan Batta, elder vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, told CNBC's Seema Mody.
Oracle volition usage AMD's Instinct MI450 chips, which were announced earlier this year.
They are AMD's archetypal AI chips that tin beryllium assembled into a larger rack-sized strategy that enables 72 of the chips to enactment arsenic one, which is needed to make and deploy the astir precocious AI algorithms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared with AMD CEO Lisa Su astatine a institution lawsuit successful June to denote the product.
"I deliberation AMD has done a truly fantastic job, conscionable similar Nvidia, and I deliberation some of them person their place," Batta said.
He added that AMD's bundle stack is "critical" and that "customers are going to instrumentality up AMD very, precise well, successful the inferencing space."
Earlier this month, OpenAI announced a deal with AMD for processors requiring six gigawatts of powerfulness implicit aggregate years, with a 1-gigawatt rollout starting successful 2026. As portion of the deal, and if the deployment goes well, OpenAI whitethorn extremity up owning arsenic galore arsenic 160 cardinal shares of AMD, oregon astir 10% of the company.
In September, OpenAI entered into a five-year unreality woody with Oracle that could beryllium worth arsenic overmuch arsenic $300 billion.
OpenAI has historically been intimately linked with Nvidia, whose chips were utilized to make ChatGPT. Nvidia's chips predominate the marketplace for information halfway GPUs with over 90% marketplace share. Nvidia besides invested successful OpenAI successful September.
But OpenAI leaders accidental that the institution needs arsenic overmuch computing powerfulness arsenic possible, which means it needs AI chips from aggregate suppliers. OpenAI besides has plans to design its ain AI chips with Broadcom.
Tuesday astatine Oracle AI World, laminitis and president Larry Ellison is acceptable to instrumentality the signifier and stock his views connected the latest OpenAI woody and what his institution is doing to enactment up of its main unreality competitors – Microsoft, Amazon and Google.
"Oracle has already shown it is consenting to spot large bets and spell each successful to conscionable the AI moment. The institution indispensable present beryllium that beyond capacity, it tin capitalize connected its monolithic underlying information and endeavor capabilities…to adhd meaningful worth to the endeavor AI wave," said Daniel Newman, CEO of The Futurum Group, connected the sidelines of Oracle's conference.
Oracle and AMD year-to-date banal chart.
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