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When AMD's Helios meets giant wafers from Cerebras, it is not like when Odysseus meets with the Laestrygonian Giants, they collaborate to build an ultimate data center solution.
After over a year of teases, AMD has finally provided details on its 256-core Venice CPU with the Zen 6 architecture, now known as the Epyc 9996.
AMD is returning to 3D V-Cache in its data center range of CPUs with Venice-X, which it has confirmed will launch in the second half of 2027, with 1152 MB of L3 and clock speeds up to 5.15 GHz.
The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems.
Meta will reportedly use a custom version of AMD's Instinct MI400-series accelerators with a memory system cut to 144GB of HBM4, allegedly for select workloads only.
TSMC reportedly intends to increase prices of wafers it processes citing demand, rising costs, and increased investments in new capacity.
Microsoft and AMD are teaming up to get Redmond more AI FLOPS for both internal and external use.
Medusa Point has made its point.
