"We are working with customers right now on beyond Venice and what we are doing in those architectures," Su said.
You may like AMD's Enterprise CPU and GPU roadmap: Venice, Verano, Zen 6, Helios, and CDNA ‘CPUs are cool again,' Intel and AMD reporting spikes in CPU demand due to agentic AI Intel, AMD server CPUs reportedly suffering from supply shortages in China "[The industry] is going to need a broad portfolio of CPUs, not all CPUs are the same," said Lisa Su, chief executive and chairman of AMD, during the company's earnings call with financial analysts and investors. "Frankly, you are going to need different CPUs for whether you are talking about general purpose operations or you are talking about head nodes or you are talking about agentic AI tasks."
During the Q&A, Su repeatedly emphasized that AMD no longer sees server CPUs as a single homogeneous category. Instead, the company now views the market as split into multiple workload-specific segments, including general-purpose compute, CPU head nodes for accelerators, and CPUs optimized for agentic AI workloads. However, AMD plans to offer differentiation even within these categories to address the particular needs of its customers more precisely.
"What we have been focused on is building, not just one type, but […] throughput optimized, power optimized, cost optimized, and AI infrastructure optimized [models] as we have done in the Venice family," Su said.
Indeed, when it comes to AMD's 6 th Generation EPYC processors based on the Zen 6 microarchitecture, the company plans to offer its codenamed Venice CPU with up to 256 cores for general-purpose servers as well as codenamed Verona processors for AI infrastructure (previously, AMD only introduced Verano CPUs as the processor that will power its next-generation rack-scale AI solutions). We yet have to learn whether CPUs aimed at agentic AI workloads will use separate silicon configurations or will re-use what was originally intended for general-purpose servers, but with different clocks or cache configurations.
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