AMD just announced its biggest server CPUs to date, with 192 cores and 576MB of combined cache.
It’s midnight right now in your author’s native Texas, but it’s only 1:00 PM in Taiwan, and not long before, AMD wrapped up the opening keynote for this year’s Computex Taipei. We’ve already covered numerous announcements made during the keynote, including the Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, the Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors, the Instinct MI325X datacenter compute accelerators, and the Radeon Pro W7900DS GPU. AMD briefed us beforehand on these announcements, but there was a big surprise during the show: EPYC «Turin».
If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you’ll probably already know a bit about «Turin,» as we’ve covered itpretty extensively. AMD really didn’t provide a tremendous amount of details, but here are the salient points: up to 192 brand-new Zen 5 CPU cores—meaning 384 threads with SMT—in a single SP5 socket. It’s backward compatible with boards for the EPYC «Genoa» series, and according to AMD, it’s «the world’s best data center CPU.
