News High­lights:

• £2bn invest­ment over five years to sup­port advan­ced com­pu­ting, sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch and work­force deve­lo­p­ment across the United Kingdom.
• New stra­te­gic part­ner­ships with Impe­ri­al Col­lege Lon­don and Orio­le Net­works will help advan­ce AI, quan­tum and next-gene­ra­ti­on com­pu­ting research.
• AMD and Dell Tech­no­lo­gies are sup­port­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cambridge’s Zenith AI super­com­pu­ter and Sun­ri­se fusi­on AI sys­tem, hel­ping expand the UK’s sove­reign AI infrastructure.
• AMD Instinct™ GPUs, AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD ROCm™ open soft­ware will sup­port pro­jects span­ning sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch, health­ca­re, public-sec­tor inno­va­ti­on and AI-dri­ven discovery.

LONDON, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced plans to invest up to £2bn over the next five years in the United King­dom to acce­le­ra­te AI inno­va­ti­on and rese­arch and expand access to the com­pu­te resour­ces nee­ded for long-term eco­no­mic growth and sci­en­ti­fic lea­der­ship across the country.

Spea­king at Lon­don Tech Week, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su out­lined a series of invest­ments and stra­te­gic col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons desi­gned to help acce­le­ra­te the UK’s AI eco­sys­tem and broa­den access to the advan­ced com­pu­ting that under­pins sci­en­ti­fic dis­co­very and public-sec­tor inno­va­ti­on. The initia­ti­ves ali­gn with the UK’s AI Oppor­tu­ni­ties Action Plan and AI Hard­ware Stra­tegy, sup­port­ing broa­der natio­nal prio­ri­ties to build world-class AI infra­struc­tu­re, deve­lop tech­ni­cal talent and acce­le­ra­te AI adoption.

“The United King­dom has the talent, rese­arch excel­lence and ambi­ti­on to help lead the next era of AI,” said Dr. Lisa Su, chair and CEO, AMD. “AMD is proud to deepen our com­mit­ment to the UK and work with part­ners across govern­ment, aca­de­mia and indus­try to expand access to the com­pu­te infra­struc­tu­re nee­ded to advan­ce sove­reign AI, acce­le­ra­te dis­co­very and dri­ve long-term eco­no­mic growth.”

The announce­ment was wel­co­med by UK govern­ment lea­ders as a signi­fi­cant step toward streng­thening the country’s AI infra­struc­tu­re, rese­arch eco­sys­tem and long-term eco­no­mic competitiveness.

“This invest­ment is a major vote of con­fi­dence in Britain’s place as a glo­bal AI super­power. We’ve got the talent, the world-class uni­ver­si­ties and the ambi­ti­on to lead, and part­ner­ships like this help turn that poten­ti­al into real pro­gress,” said Rachel Ree­ves, Chan­cell­or of the Exche­quer. “It will dri­ve more cut­ting-edge rese­arch here in the UK, open up oppor­tu­ni­ties for peo­p­le to build the skills they need for the jobs of the future, and speed up breakth­roughs that can impro­ve people’s lives and grow our economy.”

“This invest­ment reflects the strength of Britain’s talent, rese­arch and ambi­ti­on in AI — but also the infra­struc­tu­re we are put­ting in place to match it,” said Liz Kend­all, Tech­no­lo­gy Secre­ta­ry. “With world-class chip desi­gners, lea­ding uni­ver­si­ties, and part­ners such as AMD choo­sing to invest here, we are buil­ding the com­pu­te capa­bi­li­ty nee­ded to power inno­va­ti­on, dri­ve growth, crea­te jobs, and ensu­re the most advan­ced AI tech­no­lo­gies are deve­lo­ped in the UK.”

New Stra­te­gic Col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons to Advan­ce AI Rese­arch and Infrastructure
Buil­ding on its recent­ly announ­ced work with Oxford Quan­tum Cir­cuits (OQC) and JPMor­gan­Cha­se, AMD also announ­ced a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Impe­ri­al Col­lege Lon­don to advan­ce com­pu­ta­tio­nal sci­ence and sup­port­ing rese­arch that reli­es on lar­ge-sca­le com­pu­ting resour­ces, inclu­ding health­ca­re inno­va­ti­on and cli­ma­te modeling.

AMD and Impe­ri­al also intend to explo­re oppor­tu­ni­ties to opti­mi­ze AI models, sci­en­ti­fic work­flows and data-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons on AMD com­pu­te plat­forms and AMD ROCm™ open software.

Addi­tio­nal­ly, AMD is col­la­bo­ra­ting with Orio­le Net­works in sup­port of the UK’s Advan­ced Rese­arch and Inven­ti­on Agen­cy (ARIA) Sca­ling Infe­rence Lab, a natio­nal initia­ti­ve desi­gned to address cri­ti­cal AI infra­struc­tu­re bottlenecks.

The effort com­bi­nes Oriole’s PRISM pho­to­nic net­wor­king archi­tec­tu­re with AMD Instinct™ GPUs and AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors to eva­lua­te new approa­ches for sca­ling infe­rence workloads while impro­ving per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy and redu­cing latency.

The initia­ti­ve sup­ports what is expec­ted to be the world’s first lar­ge-sca­le AI sys­tem powered by a pure pho­to­nic net­work, an important step toward infra­struc­tu­re tech­no­lo­gies that can sup­port future gene­ra­ti­ons of AI sys­tems in the UK.

Expan­ding Natio­nal AI Super­com­pu­ting Capacity
AMD and Dell Tech­no­lo­gies are working with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge on its expan­ding natio­nal AI infra­struc­tu­re foot­print, inclu­ding the new Zenith AI super­com­pu­ter and the Sun­ri­se fusi­on AI sys­tem deve­lo­ped in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the United King­dom Ato­mic Ener­gy Aut­ho­ri­ty (UKAEA).

Zenith is a signi­fi­cant new UK AI-for-sci­ence plat­form, fun­ded by the Depart­ment for Sci­ence, Inno­va­ti­on and Tech­no­lo­gy (DSIT) and UK Rese­arch and Inno­va­ti­on (UKRI), desi­gned and ope­ra­ted by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, and built with AMD and Dell technology.

Sun­ri­se is a second AI super­com­pu­ter powered by AMD and Dell being built now, fun­ded by the Depart­ment for Ener­gy Secu­ri­ty and Net Zero (DESNZ), owned by UKAEA, and ope­ra­ted by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge. Sun­ri­se is part of a long stan­ding UKAEA-Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge part­ner­ship and dedi­ca­ted to the fusi­on mission.

Tog­e­ther, the­se sys­tems sup­port a broad ran­ge of AI-for-sci­ence appli­ca­ti­ons inclu­ding health­ca­re rese­arch, cli­ma­te model­ling, mate­ri­als sci­ence, engi­nee­ring simu­la­ti­on, fusi­on rese­arch and sci­en­ti­fic AI model development.

Sup­port­ing the UK’s Natio­nal AI Future
By com­bi­ning stra­te­gic invest­ments with rese­arch and eco­sys­tem part­ner­ships, AMD is hel­ping expand the UK’s com­pu­ting capa­bi­li­ties and sup­port­ing the next gene­ra­ti­on of sci­en­ti­fic and tech­no­lo­gi­cal breakth­roughs. The com­pa­ny will con­ti­nue working with govern­ment, aca­de­mia and indus­try to streng­then the foun­da­ti­ons for long-term com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness and glo­bal lea­der­ship in AI.

About AMD
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) dri­ves inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance and AI com­pu­ting to sol­ve the world’s most important chal­lenges. Today, AMD tech­no­lo­gy powers bil­li­ons of expe­ri­en­ces across cloud and AI infra­struc­tu­re, embedded sys­tems, AI PCs and gam­ing. With a broad port­fo­lio of AI-opti­mi­sed CPUs, GPUs, net­wor­king and soft­ware, AMD deli­vers full-stack AI solu­ti­ons that pro­vi­de the per­for­mance and sca­la­bi­li­ty nee­ded for a new era of intel­li­gent com­pu­ting. Learn more at www.amd.com.