Tuesday, February 17th 2026 AMD Shoots Down Report of Delayed Instinct MI455X Accelerator Launch by T0@st Today, 14:06 Discuss (6 ) Yesterday, a Semi Analysis article predicted the postponement of a forthcoming AMD Instinct MI455X AI mass manufacturing phase. As covered by this morning, this controversial forecast places Team Red's next-gen design in a precarious position, especially when compared to the apparent rapid progression of NVIDIA's competitive Vera Rubin server-grade hardware. This evening, Anush Elangovan has responded to the latest claims—the Corporate Vice President of AMD AI software and solutions issued a curt reply to a tech industry analyst's quoting of Semi Analysis' hit piece: B.S (bullshit). Right on target for H2 2026. The high volume rollout of Team Red's first rack scale Helios MI455X UALoE72 system has—allegedly—been plagued with engineering sample problems and manufacturing hiccups. In a separate social media post, Elangovan insisted that the finalized MI455X model will not be postponed into the second quarter of 2027: speed is the moat. MI455X is both fast, and is the fastest I have seen in execution for bring-up of a complex GPU platform. MI455X is right on target for shipments in 2H2026—irrespective of what Semi Analysis says—rev your engines because speed is coming. Technology-wise, AMD's Artificial Intelligence Group (AIG) seems ready to answer NVIDIA's incoming new-gen wave, but it is not clear whether the upcoming Helios rack system can compete in terms of sheer factory output numbers. Sources: Semi Analysis Newsletter, , VideoCardz Related News Tags: accelerator AI AMD Delay Industry Instinct MI455X next-gen production Report Rumor Rumors Team Red Vera Rubin Aug 4th 2025 AMD Readies 16-Core Ryzen 9000X3D CPU with 192 MB L3 Cache and 200 W TDP (355) Jul 23rd 2025 DDR6 Memory Arrives in 2027 with 8,800-17,600 MT/s Speeds (174) Aug 21st 2025 Melting 12VHPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim (109) Sep 18th 2025 NVIDIA Buys $5B Worth of Intel, RTX iGPUs Coming to x86, Shares up 25% (256) Sep 8th 2025 AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage Over x86 (97) Sep 3rd 2025 AMD Zen 6 Processors to Use TSMC 2 nm Node for CCDs, 3 nm for IOD (66) Aug 27th 2025 AMD's Next-Gen UDNA: Four Die Sizes, One Potential 96-CU Flagship (87) Jul 21st 2025 AMD's Upcoming UDNA / RDNA 5 GPU Could Feature 96 CUs and 384-bit Memory Bus (200) Nov 30th 2025 AMD Lists Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU with 5.6 GHz Boost Frequency (148) Nov 17th 2025 AMD Reportedly Planning GPU Price Increase as Memory Costs Spike (65) Add your own 6 on AMD Shoots Down Report of Delayed Instinct MI455X Accelerator Launch #1 GenericUsername2001 A good reminder that you should always take random reports on the Internet with a grain of salt. #2 Athena lol, BS, short and sweet #3 wolf Better Than Native Time will tell what the real truth of the matter is, of course they'd deny it. #4 soder Athenalol, BS, short and sweetSpeaks a lot about the intellect of a highly paid guy at AMD. Are we going full Idiocracy-level with such communication-style? #5 Tomorrow Nvidia also denied Blackwell problems. It had problems in server and publicly we all saw the driver problems on desktop that took months to resolve. Of course AMD denies it. A publicly traded company cant admit anything like that. It would tank the stock price. #6 zenlessyank soderSpeaks a lot about the intellect of a highly paid guy at AMD. Are we going full Idiocracy-level with such communication-style?Are you effin' kiddin'? I wish more than anything else we could get nice curt answers. I like curt. He's cool.
