--- title: "Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD" url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-expands-azure-ai-and-hpc-infrastructure-with-amd-cg3j8f3ty source_url: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/20/microsoft-expands-azure-ai-and-hpc-infrastructure-with-amd type: article source: "Microsoft" published: 2026-07-20T13:01:28.083Z updated: 2026-07-25T06:38:45.817Z tags: ["cloud", "azure", "amd", "ai-infrastructure"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD **[Microsoft](https://daily.dev/sources/microsoft)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI and HPC infrastructure through a deepened partnership with AMD, introducing three new VM families. HDv2 VMs feature nearly 500 AMD 6th Gen EPYC cores, 4TB RAM, and 32TB NVMe storage for AI data processing and agentic workloads. HXv2 VMs target electronic design automation and scientific computing with 176 EPYC cores at 5+ GHz, 3D V-cache technology, and 800 Gb InfiniBand for large-scale MPI simulations. ND MI455X v7 VMs, powered by AMD's Helios rackscale solution, are designed for production-scale AI inference, reasoning, and search workloads. The expansion reflects Azure's strategy of offering a heterogeneous, open compute platform to give customers flexibility across different AI workflow stages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#amd](https://daily.dev/tags/amd), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-expands-azure-ai-and-hpc-infrastructure-with-amd-cg3j8f3ty)