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AMD made its 6th Gen EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs generally available on 10 November 2026, pitching them at agentic AI workloads, and its top EPYC 9996 chip packs 256 cores at 600W default CPU power
AMD stated on 10 November 2026 that its EPYC 9996 CPU has 256 cores. The Default CPU Power for the EPYC 9996 CPU is 600W. This information was provided in an AMD press release.
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AI agents lean on ordinary server chips to run tools, code and databases, so AI spending is starting to lift demand for CPUs as well as GPUs.
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- AI share of revenue
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