# AMD's MI450 and MI500 series are now being sampled to customers.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-05-05 · Wccftech*

## Key points

- AMD's MI450 GPUs are now sampling to lead customers, with deployments starting in the second half of 2026.
- OpenAI and Meta have signed multi-gigawatt agreements to deploy MI450 GPUs at scale.
- Customer demand for MI450 exceeds AMD's original 2027 forecasts, especially for AI inference tasks.
- MI450 GPUs feature 1.5x memory capacity and scale-out bandwidth compared to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin.
- MI450 series incorporates HBM4 memory with 432GB capacity and 19.6 TB/s bandwidth per GPU.

**Companies:** AMD, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic
**Countries:** United States

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