🚨 JUST IN: US Department of Energy forms $1B supercomputer and AI partnership with $AMD The U.S. has formed a $1B partnership with $AMD to build two supercomputers targeting nuclear power, fusion energy, national security, and cancer treatment. The goal is to accelerate breakthroughs in fields that require massive computing power. Energy Secretary Wright said the systems will boost advances in fusion, defense, and drug development. Scientists aim to replicate fusion by compressing plasma under extreme conditions, and faster computing can accelerate those experiments. The machines will also help manage the U.S. nuclear arsenal and simulate cancer treatments at the molecular level. The first supercomputer, Lux, will be completed within six months. It will use $AMD MI355X AI chips along with $AMD CPUs and networking hardware. It’s being co-developed by $AMD, $HPE, $ORCL, and ORNL. ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer said Lux will deliver about 3× the AI capacity of current systems. $AMD CEO Lisa Su called it the fastest deployment of a system of this scale. The second system, Discovery, will use $AMD MI430 chips, a variant of the MI400 series optimized for both HPC and AI. It will be built by $AMD, $HPE, and ORNL, with operations starting in 2029. Streiffer said Discovery will bring major gains in computational power, though exact performance wasn’t disclosed.