AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 Announced

In addition to today's announcement of AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 availability, complete with reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core flagship and EPYC 9686F 96-core 5.3GHz part, AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series provides up to 256 cores and 16 channel DDR5 RDIMM / MRDIMM memory akin to the non-embedded EPYC 9006 series. There are 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 and CXL 3.1. AMD is promoting the new EPYC Embedded 9006 series as offering up to 1.8x the socket throughput of the prior generation EPYC Embedded 9005 series or up to 2x greater performance over Intel Xeon 6 processors. Great seeing AMD Zen 6 finally surface in more hardware after all the recent work plumbing Zen 6 support into the Linux kernel and other software components by AMD over the past year. With the EPYC Embedded 9006 series is a promoted seven year longevity for CPU availability, long-term firmware support, security support, and a drop-in next-generation processor compatibility guarantee. At the top-end of the EPYC Embedded 9006 series is the EPYC Embedded 9976 with 256 cores, 600 Watt TDP, and 4.1GHz maximum frequency. There is also the 192-core EPYC 9946, 168-core EPYC 9846, 128-core EPYC 9756, 96-core EPYC 9656, and 64-core EPYC 9556. Quite a simple (in a good way) product stack for the EPYC Embedded 9006 series. No unit pricing details were shared during the launch briefing or rather what to expect for prices from these next-gen embedded systems, especially with today's hardware pricing factors. That's all for now without any EPYC Embedded 9006 hardware in the lab for benchmarking and other Linux testing at Phoronix.