08:51 AM EDT, 03/16/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Celestica ( CLS ) was at last look up 2.8% Monday as it announced a collaboration with Nasdaq-listed AMD to bring the Helios rack-scale AI platform to market.

Celestica ( CLS ) will undertake the R&D, design and manufacturing of scale-up networking switches in the AMD Helios rack-scale AI architecture at launch, based on the Open Compute Project (OCP), Open-Rack-Wide (ORW) form-factor, a statement said.

The companies are collaborating to support deployments of Helios across cloud, enterprise, and research environments, to bring to market solutions that cut time-to-value and improve supply chain resiliency for organizations investing in AI.

AMD "Helios" will be available to customers in late 2026.

"Deploying AI at scale requires infrastructure that can be delivered quickly, consistently, and with the performance customers expect," said Steven Dorwart, senior vice president and general manager, Hyperscalers, Celestica ( CLS ). "Our collaboration with AMD on the "Helios" platform brings together our global engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain capabilities with AMD's innovation in high-performance computing. Together, we are accelerating access to AI systems optimized for the most demanding workloads of the next era."

Shares in CLS rose near 0.3% in Canada last Friday.