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AMD and Nutanix Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance an Open and Scalable Platform for Enterprise AI
News Highlights AMD and Nutanix sign multi-year agreement to accelerate adoption of Nutanix-powered agentic AI platform on AMD accelerated compute
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[{"type":"text","content":"News Highlights AMD and Nutanix sign multi-year agreement to accelerate adoption of Nutanix-powered agentic AI platform on AMD accelerated compute infrastructure for enterprise AI and service providers AMD to invest and fund up to $250 million in Nutanix shares, and R&D and go-to-market for integrated solutions Joint roadmap to integrate AMD ROCm™ and AMD Enterprise AI software into the Nutanix Cloud Platform and the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform using AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs with support from a broad set of OEM server providers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to jointly develop an open, full-stack AI infrastructure platform designed to power agentic AI applications, everywhere. This agreement aligns to both companies’ commitment to an open ecosystem for AI, providing customers with choice and easy-to-deploy, production-ready, high-performance, and efficient solutions that are optimized for agentic AI, at the edge, inside enterprises, and across the cloud. The partnership aligns silicon innovation, open runtime software and enterprise cloud orchestration technologies for AI to deliver scalable, production-ready agentic AI platforms across data center, hybrid and edge environments. By optimizing the Nutanix Cloud and Nutanix Kubernetes Platforms on AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs, and integrating the AMD ROCm™ software ecosystem and the AMD Enterprise AI platform into Nutanix AI full-stack solutions, the companies are developing an open solution for agentic AI platforms using high-performance infrastructure and supported by a broad set of OEM partners. As part of the agreement, AMD will make a strategic investment of $150 million in Nutanix common stock at a purchase price of $36.26 per share, and fund up to $100 million for Nutanix to support joint engineering initiatives and go-to-market collaboration to accelerate the adoption of AMD and the Nutanix-powered agentic AI platform, everywhere. The equity investment is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. “Enterprise customers need the freedom to run the models and workloads that matter most to their business, without compromise,” said Dan McNamara, ...