AMD to introduce EPYC Venice at Advancing AI event

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster confirmed that EPYC ‘Venice,’ the company’s first Zen 6 server CPU, will be officially introduced at AMD’s Advancing AI event on July 22nd and 23rd. Papermaster described the processor family as optimized for traditional x86 enterprise workloads, saying enterprise customers are not moving away from x86.

EPYC ‘Venice’ is built on TSMC’s 2 nm process, with manufacturing ramping in Taiwan and future production planned at TSMC’s Arizona facility. The flagship configuration reaches 256 Zen 6 cores, a 33% increase over the current 192-core EPYC ‘Turin’ lineup, and AMD claims over 70% higher performance and efficiency compared with the Zen 5-based predecessor.

The platform shifts to the new SP7 socket, adds 16-channel memory support with up to 1.6 TB/s of bandwidth, and adopts PCIe Gen 6 for stronger CPU-to-GPU communication. In Helios racks, the CPUs will be paired with AMD Instinct MI455 GPUs for AI accelerator workloads alongside conventional x86 tasks. Mainstream Zen 6 desktop and mobile chips remain separate, with consumer parts not expected before the end of the year at the earliest and CES 2027 in January described as the most likely debut window.