Zen 6

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   AMD unveils Helion agentic AI rack design; Helios racks enter production

   At the OCP Global Summit 2026, AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su introduced Helion, an open rack-scale reference design for agentic AI workloads built to OCP's Open Rack v3 (ORv3) 44OU specification, with configurations planned for availability in November 2026 and specs to be submitted to the OCP community. AMD says Helion comes in CPU-only and CPU-GPU configurations supporting up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores, 16 Instinct MI350P accelerators, 74 petaflops of FP4 compute and 102 Tbps of networking, with Venice CPU and power options split across personal-assistant, enterprise and technical-computing agent workloads, plus an integrated token router that directs agent model requests across frontier and open-source models. AMD also said its Helios AI rack, first shown at OCP last year, has entered production, with the first systems installed and running at OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle; Helios combines Instinct GPUs, EPYC processors, Pensando networking and the ROCm software stack.

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   AMD debuts EPYC Verano: Zen 6 server CPU with LPDDR5X, due 2027

   At the 2026 OCP Global Summit that opened October 12, AMD publicly showed its next-generation EPYC "Verano" data center processor for the first time, built on Zen 6 and slated for a 2027 launch — the first EPYC line to use LPDDR5X memory via SOCAMM2 modules. In her keynote, CEO Lisa Su called it the next step in AMD's CPU roadmap for the AI era, targeting agentic AI host nodes with up to 112 Gbps xGMI links to pair with future Instinct MI500 GPUs. The core count is not officially confirmed: some coverage cites up to 192 cores, while other reports describe up to 72 Zen 6 cores with a 24-channel LPDDR5X memory subsystem.

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   AMD unveils Helion agentic AI rack blueprint with up to 32,768 Zen 6 CPU cores

   AMD announced Helion at the OCP summit, a rack-scale reference design built on the Open Compute Project's ORv4 spec and the open-platform approach of its Helios rack, pitched as an open blueprint for agentic AI rather than a system it will sell itself. A CPU-only configuration can hold up to 128 of AMD's 256-core sixth-generation EPYC "Venice" (Zen 6) processors, reaching 32,768 cores for hyperscalers, while a mixed configuration supports up to 16 Instinct MI350P GPUs and 102 Tbps of networking for enterprise deployments. AMD says it will contribute the specification to OCP, with Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and Foxconn among partners developing systems planned for November 2026, though one report points to first-half 2027 availability and no pricing was disclosed.

   Tom’s Hardware · 🔥 0

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