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Industry initiative that shares open hardware designs for data center servers, racks, networking and power and cooling.
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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Intel named Crescent Island the GPU D-Series at OCP 2026, a 350W air-cooled PCIe card with up to 480GB of LPDDR5X. Tom's Hardware reported a 1.3 PFLOPS FP8 peak target and 1.5 TB/s of bandwidth; customer sampling is in progress.
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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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Nvidia contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project at the project's Global Summit in San Jose. Nvidia says builders get common blueprints for racks, networking, power and cooling; the benchmark figures released alongside are its own.
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Nvidia said at the OCP summit that Google and Meta will adopt its Spectrum-X and related networking gear. Google's named products are narrower than that description, so the announcement shows less about Nvidia's network position than its lead sentence suggests.
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Meta, Microsoft and Alibaba co-lead OSPA, a new OCP initiative whose switch-platform specification v1.0 has been submitted to OCP. MetaRoCE now has open-source implementations; the rack and fabric designs are described, with release terms unstated.
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