AMD MI500 is planned around AMD’s CDNA 6 architecture with 2nm manufacturing and HBM4E memory

• AMD targets MI500 launch in 2027 as Nvidia prepares Vera-Rubin a year earlier
• CES 2026 shows growing gap between AMD and Nvidia AI accelerator timelines
• AMD expands AI portfolio while next generation hardware remains a year out

At CES 2026, AMD discussed its near and longer term AI hardware plans, including a preview of the Instinct MI500 Series accelerators expected to arrive in 2027.

The company used the show to present an early look at Helios, a rack-scale platform built around Instinct MI455X GPUs and EPYC Venice CPUs. Helios is positioned as a blueprint for very large-scale AI infrastructure rather than a shipping product.

AMD also introduced the Instinct MI440X, a new accelerator aimed at on-prem enterprise deployments, designed to fit into existing eight GPU systems for training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.