⚡ AMD ships Zen 6: new EPYC "Venice" server chips pack up to 256 cores
AMD's first Zen 6 processors, the EPYC 9006 series codenamed Venice, are now shipping, with SP7 platforms first and SP8 due in the first half of 2027. The flagship EPYC 9996 has 256 cores, 512 threads and 1GB of L3 cache, priced at $14,904, while the lineup starts at $700 for an 8-core chip. Built on TSMC's N2 process, AMD claims up to 2.6x better performance per watt and up to 1.8x the LLM inference output of the previous generation; Tom's Hardware measured a dual-9996 server up to 93% faster than the last flagship.
⭐ AI data centers need CPUs to feed GPUs and run agents, and AMD is pitching Venice directly against Intel Xeon and Nvidia's Vera CPU.
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AMD's first Zen 6 processors, the EPYC 9006 series codenamed Venice, are now shipping, with SP7 platforms first and SP8 due in the first half of 2027. The flagship EPYC 9996 has 256 cores, 512 threads and 1GB of L3 cache, priced at $14,904, while the lineup starts at $700 for an 8-core chip. Built on TSMC's N2 process, AMD claims up to 2.6x better performance per watt and up to 1.8x the LLM inference output of the previous generation; Tom's Hardware measured a dual-9996 server up to 93% faster than the last flagship.
⭐ AI data centers need CPUs to feed GPUs and run agents, and AMD is pitching Venice directly against Intel Xeon and Nvidia's Vera CPU.
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