AMD's Zen 6 Party Kicks Off This Month With EPYC Venice CPUs
Well, it's confirmed: Zen 6 is a go, and it's happening this month. In fact, it's happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle's TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will be launching at AMD's Advancing AI event starting July 22nd. Specifically, what Papermaster said was this:
... we launched the new Zen processor back in 2017. We're now on our sixth generation. So, at our Advancing AI event on July 22nd and 23rd, we're rolling out this new generation.
He went on to talk about AMD's Helios AI rack solution that it's releasing to compete with NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra and Rubin NVL72 machines, but the quote above is the sum total of new, relevant information.
These will be 6th-Generation EPYC processors, the much-ballyhooed 'Venice' chips, which are very exciting for enterprise and datacenter users because they're rumored...
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