HP Enterprise unveils new ProLiant Compute XD685 system powered by AMD AI

• HP Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) held its first ever artificial intelligence day and the company made several announcements, including a new server powered by AMD’s (NASDAQ:AMD) AI chips.
• The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 will allow for complex AI model training tasks, thanks to AMD’s Instinct MI325X accelerators.
• HP Enterprise Chief Technology Officer Fidelma Russo said at the event in Wisconsin that generative AI and inferencing at the edge can be aided with on-premise and hybrid solutions, and HP Enterprise is poised to aid, with its hybrid approach.
• “Our collaboration with HPE continues to deliver flexible, highly performant solutions that help maximize AI efforts for increased demand in large language model training and advances competitive industry innovation,” AMD data center executive Forrest Norrod said in a statement.
• The company also stressed that it is well positioned thanks to its decades of experience in design, manufacturing, installing and servicing, both in air-cooled and liquid-cooled AI systems at scale.
• HP Enterprise said it sees the total addressable market for AI-related hardware and services hitting $171B by 2027, including liquid-cooled servers, Ethernet network, advisory support and air-cooled servers and storage.

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