AMD EPYC Venice-X: 96 Zen 6 cores and 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache
AMD has announced its EPYC 9006X "Venice-X" server CPUs, arriving in the second half of 2027. The chips pair up to 96 Zen 6 cores with up to 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache and boost clocks reaching 5.3 GHz, targeting HPC and technical compute. Microsoft said the chips will be deployed in its Azure HXv2 instances.