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Hardware, runtimes and sandboxes for running autonomous AI agents, including CPUs, accelerators, databases and isolation layers.
AMD introduced Helion, an open rack reference design with CPU-only and CPU-GPU versions for agentic AI, at the OCP Global Summit on Oct. 12. Partner systems are due in November 2026, so teams must settle where models run before they pick a rack.
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Dell says an AMD-powered 18th-generation PowerEdge can replace 13 servers from its 14th generation. Operators short on power and space get a ratio to test on their own workloads, from a Dell-sponsored interview with one Dell executive.
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Intel is pitching a 350-watt air-cooled GPU and Xeon racks at OCP to match each AI prompt to a right-sized system. The one demand figure it cited comes from a single gateway's token traffic.
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AMD unveiled Helion, a rack for running AI agents with up to 32,768 CPU cores, at the OCP summit in San Jose on October 12. Buyers can plan around a November 2026 target. AMD had not published pricing, The Next Web reported.
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Intel said Xeon Diamond Rapids will be the last generation to support SGX, Tom's Hardware reported. Existing SGX platforms stay supported into the early 2030s, so an enclave team's nearer deadline is its first Xeon refresh after Diamond Rapids.
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Docker's new Cloud Sandboxes run AI agents unattended for hours in microVMs on Docker-hosted compute that scales from 1 to 16 vCPUs. Teams that adopt it move agent secrets and policy enforcement into Docker's cloud, on isolation claims that so far come only from Docker.
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Srini Srinivasan argues that evaluations run at comfortable utilization only measure the flat part of the queueing curve. His alternative asks for p99.9 under conditions a two-week bake-off has to manufacture.
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One SKU, one compute die, 1.2 TB/s of LPDDR5X, and benchmark wins over a 96-core EPYC. The comparison with AMD's Venice is being set on Nvidia's terms rather than on core counts.
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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now deployable from SageMaker JumpStart and fits on one GPU. The argument underneath it is about billing, not benchmarks.
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