AMD and DOE Launch Billion-Dollar Supercomputing Revolution
AMD and the U.S. Department of Energy team up to build two groundbreaking supercomputers—Lux and Discovery—ushering in a new era for American AI, fusion energy, and national security.
Hold onto your hats, tech fans, because the U.S. Department of Energy just dropped a billion-dollar bombshell with Advanced Micro Devices to construct two jaw-dropping supercomputers that could reshape the future. Announced on October 27, 2025, this powerhouse partnership is set to unleash a new era of American innovation, tackling everything from cracking the code on fusion energy to turning cancer into a manageable foe. With the Trump administration cheering from the sidelines, this move is a calculated jab in the global AI race, aiming to loosen Nvidia’s iron grip on the market while cementing U.S. tech dominance.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is practically beaming about the potential of these machines, named Lux and Discovery, which are built to wrestle with the kind of brain-bending problems that make today’s computers sweat. Lux, the faster of the two, will harness AMD’s slick Instinct MI355X AI chips, paired with AMD CPUs and networking tech, to hit the ground running by April 2026—talk about a speedy delivery for a machine of this magnitude. AMD’s CEO Lisa Su, barely containing her excitement, called this the quickest rollout of such a massive computing project she’s ever seen, a nod to the urgency driving America’s AI ambitions. Then there’s Discovery, armed with a custom version of AMD’s Instinct MI430 AI chips designed for high-performance computing, set to arrive in 2028 and go full throttle by 2029, boasting 3.5 times the power of the current Frontier supercomputer.

