- Venice CPU doubles bandwidth by up to 256 Zen 6 -Kerner
- 2027 AI Rack expected to deliver 144 GPUs with Verano chips
- AMD is planning Verano and MI500 Escape with 36-Rack infrastructure
At its recent advancing AI event, AMD revealed some of the first technical details of its next generation of Zen 6-based processor, code-named “Venice.”
Built on a 2nm process and gasket up to 256 Zen 6 -Kerner -an increase of 33% from the current generation of EPYC ‘Turin’ processor -AMD is trying to raise the line to AI optimized calculation strength.
It is expected that more than double memory bandwidth compared to the current EPYC CPUs that hit 1.6 TB/s per day. Socket. Venice also supports PCIe Gen6 and offers faster communication between CPUs and GPUs.
Push the envelope
“Venice expands our leadership across any dimension that matters in the data center,” said Lisa SU, AMD CEO. “More performance, better efficiency, and outstanding total ownership costs.”
“It delivers 70% more calculated performance than our current generation leadership Turin CPUs,” she added. “And to really continue feeding the MI400 with full speed data, even in the rack scale, we have doubled both GPU and memory bandwidth and optimized Venice to run at higher speeds. Now we’ve just become Venice back in the laboratories and it looks fantastic.”
While Venice Headlines AMDS 2026 platform, SU also gave us a glimpse of what the chip giant is working on in 2027.
“We are already deep in the development of our 2027 rack, which will push the envelope further on performance, efficiency and scalability with our next generation of Verano CPUs and instinct MI500 series GPUs, so lots and lots of things to come from AMD,” she revealed.
This new system is based on “Helios” rack shown for 2026, which houses 72 MI400 GPUs over 18 racks. For 2027, AMD is planning an even more expansive setup with 36 racks.
Assuming a similar configuration, the next gene AI-rack could contain 144 GPUs. The Verano platform is expected to maintain the high bandwidth and performance efficiency established by Venice, probably with more memory and calculation per Rack.
AMD has not officially named its 2027 rack, but we hear that it is informally referred to in industrial circles as a larger scale continuation of Helios.
Via Toms Hardware
