AMD has confirmed its plans to release the Zen 7 Epyc “Florence” processors in 2028, with the company also previewing its Zen 8 Epyc “Ravenna” for 2030. The announcement was made during the company’s Advancing AI 2026 event in San Francisco.
The new core architecture will debut in 2028 with the 7th-generation Epyc “Florence” processors for enterprise and AI data centers. AMD did not reveal any architectural details about Zen 7, but confirmed that Epyc Florence will include both Zen 7 and Zen 7c cores.
The Florence processors will also be the first processors in AMD’s portfolio to support the next iterations of MRDIMM and LPDDR memory standards, as well as ACE AI Compute Extensions to accelerate matrix multiplication and AI workloads across the x86 ecosystem.
Epyc Florence will cover the existing SP7 and SP8 platforms.
The SP7 chips will deliver high-core-count and flagship performance, while the SP8 versions will offer optimized performance with a focus on value.
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They have started work on the Zen 8 core architecture, which will debut in 2030 with the company’s 8th-generation Epyc chips, codenamed “Ravenna.”
The company did not reveal anything else about either Zen 8 or Epyc Ravenna, including architectural details, process node, core count, or memory support.
AMD unveiled the Instinct MI455X AI accelerator with CDNA 5 compute architecture and confirmed that the CDNA 6-based MI500 will debut in 2027, followed by the MI600 in 2028.
With the increasing demand for AI workloads, AMD’s focus on developing processors that can handle these tasks will be essential in the coming years.
The first-generation Helios AI rack models are set to launch this year, powered by Epyc Venice CPUs and the new MI455X accelerator.
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Helios 500 is slated to arrive in 2027 with Epyc Venice CPUs and Instinct MI500 GPUs, followed by Helios 600 in 2028, powered by Epyc Ferrara and Instinct MI600.
AMD launched its latest 3D V-Cache CPU, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D.
The new processor comes with 8 Zen 4 cores, 16 threads, and 96MB of L3 cache.
They also unveiled the Zen 6-based Epyc Venice CPUs and revealed key details about its Arm-based Vera CPU, designed specifically for agentic AI workloads in data centers.
