AMD showed its sixth-generation EPYC Verano CPU at OCP 2026 during Lisa Su's Oct 12 keynote, with up to 192 Zen 6 cores and LPDDR5X memory on the SOCAMM2 form factor. The processor targets agentic AI workloads and is due in 2027.
AMD states up to 192 cores on a single chip.
This marks the first AMD EPYC CPU with an LPDDR memory interface.
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