AMD's new EPYC Venice flagship features 256 cores and a 78% performance boost for server, cloud, and AI-support infrastructure.

AMD’s latest EPYC Venice figures shift the server CPU story beyond core counts, putting the 256-core EPYC 9996 into the middle of AI rack planning, accelerator feeding, and real throughput.

Loongson’s 3C3000 shifts the server conversation toward practical, lower-power infrastructure CPUs built for file, web, database, and business servers.

AMD's 256-core Venice and Nvidia's 88-core Vera are opposite answers to the same question. Inside the agentic server CPU split, and why MLPerf's new benchmark won't settle it.

For the first time in 20 years, Intel does not dominate the server market. AMD holds 46.2% of server revenue. ARM is gaining fast. Here's what's really happening.

Intel revealed details of its next-gen server CPU, Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids, at Hot Chips 2026, detailing an innovative architecture with up to 256 P-cores and 1.28TB of last-level cache.

Arm presented its dual 70-core chiplet AGI server CPU architecture at Hot Chips 2026, delivering 140 cores for AI scale-out clusters.

Intel’s Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids disclosure points to a 2027 server CPU where 256 P-cores are only part of the story. The bigger shift is how Intel is reorganizing memory, fabric, and I/O.

Intel had gradually phased out hyper-threading across its consumer and server processors. The Intel Core Ultra 200 series, for example, dropped support entirely. The company cited better energy efficiency, lower power draw, and reduced die area. Its Xeon server processors also went without the feature. Now, however, Intel has decided to revive hyper-threading, starting with the Xeon 8 series.

Server CPU prices are up 10–20% since March, with more hikes signaled for H2 2026. Where Xeon and EPYC supply, lead times, and used CPU values stand at mid-year.

AI workloads are pushing the 2026 server CPU shortage to a breaking point — prices up 20%, lead times up to a year. Here's what it means for your IT strategy.

Intel’s Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest is now a real data-center chip, pairing 288 E-cores with Intel 18A manufacturing for dense cloud, telecom, and AI infrastructure.

AMD has fundamentally redefined cloud computing economics and Google Cloud’s latest infrastructure proves it. The 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, introduced in late