AMD unveils EPYC Verano: up to 192 cores and LPDDR5X memory

At OCP Summit AMD showed its next-gen EPYC Verano server CPUs based on Zen 6 in the EPYC 9006 LP family. The chip is the first to support SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory, scales to 192 cores and offers up to 112 Gbps xGMI for Instinct MI500 GPUs; availability is set for 2027.

• Up to 192 Zen 6 cores, up from the earlier 72-core figure
• First EPYC with an LPDDR5X interface via SOCAMM2
• Up to 112 Gbps xGMI for Instinct MI500 GPUs
• SP8 platform, launch in 2027