Upcoming AMD EPYC-E chips to feature up to 64 Zen 6 cores and PCIe 6.0 support

AMD is focused on delivering its Zen 5 architecture across all market categories before moving on to Zen 6, so consumers and data centres shouldn't expect it anytime soon. However, the first reports are starting to come out, showing some of what we can look forward to with future CPUs.

According to Moore's Law Is Dead, AMD's internal presentation in September included information on the upcoming Zen 5 and Zen 6 architectures, codenamed Nirvana and Morpheus, respectively. Zen 5 is set to receive a significant overhaul, while Zen 6 aims to increase core count per chiplet (up to 32) and enable high-precision floating point (FP16) operations acceleration for AI and ML.

The video also shows the red team plans to release the EPYC-E product series (fewer cores and less power), designed for telecom and edge systems. Codenamed “Venice”, these processors will be based on the SP8 socket and feature two CCDs, each with 32 Zen 6 cores, with the option to swap CCDs for Pensando Salina-based NCDs (Network Compute Dies).

These chips would come in two variants. The “Standard” models would feature 64 Zen 6 cores, octa-channel DDR5-6400 memory, 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and 32 PCIe 6.0 lanes. The other variant would be “Entry”, featuring 32 Zen 6 cores, quad-channel DDR5-6400 memory, 32 PCIe 5.0 and 16 PCIe 6.0 lanes.

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KitGuru says: Edge computing processing power has come a long way. It wasn't that long ago that Edge computing CPUs were about as fast as a laptop processor.

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