AMD says its Instinct MI500 AI Accelerator will come in 2027 — but is it too late with Nvidia set to introduce Vera-Rubin in 2026? (www.techradar.com)

AMD has announced that its next-generation Instinct MI500 AI Accelerator is set to launch in 2027, significantly trailing Nvidia's Vera-Rubin platform, which is due for release in 2026. While AMD plans to leverage its CDNA 6 architecture and 2nm process to achieve up to a remarkable 1,000x performance increase over its MI300X series, the delayed arrival raises concerns within the AI/ML community about AMD's competitiveness against Nvidia's growing dominance. At CES 2026, AMD showcased its Helios platform concept built around MI455X GPUs, aimed at large-scale AI infrastructure, but its MI440X model is already geared for enterprise tasks. In contrast, Nvidia is poised to revolutionize AI workloads with its Vera-Rubin system featuring six advanced chips that promise to cut inference costs by 10x and reduce training GPU requirements by 75%. This rapid advancement underscores a widening gap in AI accelerator technology that could leave AMD at a disadvantage in the fast-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence solutions.