AMD’s Lisa Su says largest customers are already talking MI500 and MI600
AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company’s biggest customers are already asking about chips that won’t exist for years.
AMD is in active dialogs with its largest customers on MI500 and MI600 and beyond. The near-term piece is the MI400 series, built on the CDNA 5 architecture, which AMD’s roadmap has shipping in volume by 2026. Next up is the MI500 series, scheduled for a 2027 launch, built on CDNA 6 architecture, using an advanced 2nm manufacturing process and pairing with HBM4E memory.
The MI500’s stated ambition is large. AMD is targeting more than 2,000× higher inference throughput than the MI300X within four years. After the MI500 comes the MI600 series, which is expected in 2028. Su’s comments suggest customers are already factoring that generation into their planning too.
“We’re in very active dialogs with our largest customers on MI500 and MI600 and beyond.”
The company plans annual releases of new Helios rack-scale AI platforms through at least 2030. Each Helios system integrates Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and Pensando networking into one package. Meta is the showcase customer here. The company has already begun deploying Helios systems and has contributed to the development of AMD’s latest GPUs.
Meta has also deployed millions of EPYC processors from AMD. It is described as an integral partner in custom Instinct GPU deployment, which makes it less of a customer and more of a co-designer. Su’s comments come with financial backing. AMD reported Q1 AI-related revenue of $5.8 billion in 2026, a 57% year-over-year increase. MI300-series accelerators made up approximately 73% of that AI revenue.
Talks are not orders, though. Su described dialogs, not signed commitments, and the gap between a roadmap slide and a shipped product is where chip companies historically stumble. The MI500 depends on a 2nm process and HBM4E memory, both advanced technologies, and any delay ripples through every customer’s build-out plan.
The Meta relationship is the template to watch. If AMD can replicate that co-development model with other large customers, the MI500 and MI600 conversations could turn into the kind of multi-generation commitments that reshape market share. The near-term checkpoint is the MI400 volume ramp in 2026. If that goes smoothly, Su’s talk of MI500, MI600 and beyond starts to look less like ambition and more like a schedule.
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