Dell focuses on AI: New PowerEdge servers for Blackwell GPUs and AI agents

At this year's Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, Dell presented several new servers from the PowerEdge series. The company is thus responding to its customers' growing demand for specialized hardware for various AI workloads, such as the training of language models in the data center or AI conferences on edge or end devices. In addition to the servers, Dell is also expanding its portfolio to include a mobile workstation with an integrated neural processing unit (NPU).

New servers for Blackwell GPUs from Nvidia

In the high-end AI server segment, Dell presented the two new models, XE9780 and XE9785. They support the latest Nvidia GPUs from the Blackwell Ultra series. The liquid-cooled XE9780L and XE9785L variants are also available. According to Dell, they can accommodate up to 192 GPUs per system. In customized IR7000 racks, a density of up to 256 GPUs is possible, which should allow up to four times faster AI training in 8-way configurations of Nvidia HGX. The XE9785 and XE9785L models also support the AMD Instinct MI350.

Dell also presented another server, the PowerEdge XE9712. It has an Nvidia GB300 NVL72, which contains 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 ARM processors from Nvidia's Grace series. The server is also designed to run AI inferences efficiently. Dell claims an up to 50-fold increase in performance compared to previous products. In the future, there are also plans to support Nvidia processors from the Vera series and the Vera Rubin platform in a dedicated XE series server.

Dell presents servers for AI agents

Dell also announced the PowerEdge XE7745 for July 2025. It is intended for use with AI agents, digital twins or in robotics, but is also suitable as an edge device in special application areas. This model can accommodate up to eight PCIe GPUs of the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 generation in a 4U housing. It also has two processors from AMD's Epyc 9005 series and 24 DDR5 slots for a total of up to three terabytes of RAM.

In addition to the servers, the US manufacturer is also expanding its workstation portfolio with the Laptop Pro Max Plus. Dell describes it as the world's first mobile workstation with a discrete NPU for use in the enterprise sector. The Pro Max Plus is equipped with a Qualcomm Cloud AI 100, which has 32 AI cores and 64 gigabytes of dedicated memory. It achieves up to 350 TOPS, around nine times more than computers with Copilot Plus certification. Together with Intel processors from the Arrow Lake HX series, the laptop is designed to enable local AI inference with up to 109 billion parameters.

(mki)