AMD To Unveil The First Zen 6 Processors In Less Than Two Weeks
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AMD will fully unveil its first processors based on the Zen 6 architecture in just a couple of weeks. The company has officially announced that the announcement will take place at the Advancing AI 2026 event, which will take place on July 22 and 23.
The company’s CTO and Executive Vice President, Mark Papermaster, outlined its plans in an interview with the YouTube channel SiliconANGLE theCUBE. The new Zen 6 processor family will initially be represented by sixth-generation EPYC models, codenamed Venice, rather than consumer Ryzen models.
“To be honest, this question comes up in every conversation with business representatives these days. Because enterprises have been using x86 for decades. They have no intention of replacing the existing base. And that’s what we’ve done since the release of the Zen processor in 2017. We’re now at the sixth generation. And we’ll be unveiling this new generation at our Advancing AI event on July 22 and 23. It will maintain the leadership of x86 processors, but it was designed to meet what I’ve been talking about. It’s optimized for traditional standalone x86 workloads,” said Mr. Papermaster.
AMD’s EPYC Venice processors, based on the Zen 6 architecture, will feature up to 256 cores, with processor performance up to 1.7x faster and memory bandwidth up to 1.6 TB/s compared to previous-generation processors. This will be the first high-performance computing product manufactured using TSMC’s 2nm process technology.
It’s also important to note that these CPUs will be the first to transition to TSMC’s 2-nanometer process technology. However, it’s still unclear when to expect the next-generation consumer Ryzen processors.
