AMD announced that it will invest more than $10 billion in the Taiwan ecosystem to meet increasing infrastructure demands. This strategic move aims to scale advanced packaging production for next-generation systems and expand subsidiaries.

The company aims to provide higher performance and efficiency by developing silicone, packaging and production technologies together with its partners around the world. These efforts build on AMD’s long-term leadership in areas such as chiplet architectures and 3D hybrid bonding.

Advanced Packaging and EFB Technology

AMD is developing the next generation wafer-based 2.5D bridge mid-interface technology in cooperation with industry partners such as Taiwan-based ASE and SPIL. Elevated Fanout Bridge (EFB)Its architecture improves power efficiency while increasing medium contact bandwidth and supports processors codenamed Venice.

These technological improvements enable systems to run faster and deliver higher performance within real-world power constraints. Additionally, AMD reached an important milestone by approving the industry’s first 2.5D panel-based EFB media connection with PTI.

This panel-based innovation allows supporting high-bandwidth interconnects in a scalable form. In this way, customers can benefit from general cost advantages while establishing more efficient systems.

AMD Helios Platform and Future Plans

AMD plans to launch these innovations in the second half of 2026. AMD Helioswill use it on a rack-scale platform. Leading ODM partners such as Sanmina, Wiwynn, Wistron and Inventec are actively involved in the process from design to high-volume production of this platform.

Helios-based systems are equipped with AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs, 6th Generation AMD EPYC processors, and the AMD ROCm open software stack. The platform aims to run more complex workloads with an optimized power consumption, thanks to computing power, memory capacity and system-level integration.

Other technology partners such as Unimicron, AIC, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus also contribute to strengthening this ecosystem with substrate assays and mechanical architecture reinforcement. Through this large-scale collaboration, AMD aims to accelerate the installation of new generation information center infrastructures.

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