As agentic AI drives new demands for compute density, memory bandwidth, and data movement, MSI is advancing next-generation data center infrastructure with server platforms powered by AMD EPYC 9006 Series SP7 Server CPUs. With SP7 systems entering the shipping phase in Q4 2026 and SP8 platforms planned for the first half of 2027, MSI's portfolio spans liquid-cooled GPU servers, 19" DC-MHS and 21" ORv3 multi-node platforms, and enterprise servers, supporting AI, cloud, HPC, virtualization, and business-critical workloads.

Built on the Zen 6 architecture, AMD EPYC 9006 Series Server CPUs deliver up to 256 cores and 512 threads per socket for high-density computing and AI agent execution. With up to 1.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth and PCIe Gen 6 connectivity, they support data-intensive workloads and high-speed I/O for GPUs, networking, and storage.

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the general availability of the 6th Gen AMD EPYC server SP7 processors, based on the new "Zen 6" architecture, extending its historical server CPU performance leadership as AI creates new demands across the data center. Systems powered by the new CPUs are shipping from all leading server vendors, and cloud instances from Microsoft Azure and OCI are coming soon.

Across five generations, AMD EPYC processors have repeatedly raised the standard for server CPU performance, energy efficiency and platform choice, culminating in 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors becoming the fastest-ramping and highest-volume EPYC generation in AMD history. Now, 6th Gen AMD EPYC server CPUs extend AMD CPU leadership, running AI agents, accelerated infrastructure and critical enterprise applications, helping customers expand computing capacity that runs their businesses.

[Editor's note: You can read our AMD Zen 6 Technical Deep Dive here]

TrendForce's latest AI server industry research indicates that demand for server CPUs has grown steadily since the second half of 2025 as AI server providers actively introduce AI agent applications. Server CPU shipments are projected to increase 31% YoY in 2026.

In 2027, continued growth in AI inference demand and rising adoption of agentic AI services are expected to drive server CPU shipments up by more than 40% YoY, potentially reshaping a market landscape traditionally dominated by x86 processors.

Advantech, a leading provider of industrial edge AI and high-performance computing solutions, today introduces two new tower server chassis—the HPC-7046 Closed-Loop Liquid-Cooling Tower Chassis and HPC-5422 Desktop Workstation Chassis—designed to tackle the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine vision, robotics, and edge computing. From advanced liquid cooling for high-performance, thermally demanding AI workloads to compact desktop workstation with high-power PSU support for power-hungry GPU computing, the new chassis portfolio delivers scalable performance, expansion capabilities, and deployment flexibility, enabling modern AI computing in a compact footprint across industrial and enterprise edge, including small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) offices and server rooms, development laboratories, factory automation, and embedded industrial equipment.

HPC-7046: High-Performance Liquid Cooling for Next Generation AI Computing
Modern AI and compute-intensive workloads are driving the adoption of higher-performance CPUs with increasing thermal design power (TDP), making thermal management and acoustic critical for high-performance tower systems.

ASUS is expanding its AI infrastructure portfolio with the launch of the XA P2N-E2, a 2U NVIDIA MGX architecture-based server powered by NVIDIA Vera CPUs and designed for agentic AI and reinforcement learning workloads. Unveiled at OCP Global Summit 2026, this new ASUS server powered by the Vera CPU targets the execution layer of AI applications, handling workloads such as code execution, tool use, sandboxing, data processing and orchestration that extend beyond the AI model itself. The XA P2N-E2 supports up to two dual-slot NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, combining high-performance CPU computing with flexible GPU acceleration in a compact 2U platform. The high single-thread CPU performance and high-bandwidth, energy-efficient memory are designed to keep AI agents responsive during demanding execution and evaluation tasks.

At OCP, ASUS also showcases a broader portfolio covering rack-scale AI systems, accelerated computing, high-speed networking, context memory, low-latency inference and high-density storage. At the rack level, XA VR721-E3, the ASUS AI POD integrates 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs and 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs through the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, using a fully liquid-cooled architecture for large-scale AI training, post-training and inference. For a more flexible server configuration, the XR R1I12B-M1BHFS combines NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 with direct-to-chip liquid cooling for the GPU baseboard and air cooling for Intel Xeon 6 processors. Together, the systems reflect the ASUS approach to scaling AI infrastructure across different compute densities, cooling architectures and deployment requirements, from individual servers to large-scale AI environments.

Astera Labs, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALAB), a leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure, today announced Orion: a modular rack-scale reference design with production-grade connectivity that allows customers to choose their own GPU and CPU. To be offered through Astera Labs' ODM and OEM partners, the Orion production-grade reference designs are expected to help enable neocloud and enterprise customers to deploy AI infrastructure faster and run it more efficiently, turning racks built on open standards into token-efficient AI factories.

For neoclouds and enterprises to economically serve inference at scale, they must secure sufficient accelerator and CPU capacity while delivering predictable, low-latency performance across increasingly complex AI infrastructure. But because they must commit to that capacity long before they know which accelerator will be available or affordable for their workloads, tying early investment to a single platform carries unnecessary cost and risk. At the same time, ODMs and OEMs are forced to repeatedly solve complex integration, validation, and software challenges for every new accelerator platform—slowing deployments when inference capacity is in critical demand.

INNO3D announces the AGS-4UMGX-R1 NVIDIA MGX 4U GPU Server, a high-performance platform built for AI training, AI inference, large language models (LLMs), digital twins, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Powered by dual Intel Xeon 6 processors and supporting up to 32 DDR5 RDIMMs, the AGS-4UMGX-R1 delivers the scalability required for modern AI deployments. The system supports up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and features the NVIDIA ConnectX -8 SuperNIC with eight 400 Gbps QSFP ports for ultra-fast AI networking.

Senao Networks Inc. today announced the launch of its new x86 enterprise server portfolio, featured on the company's Senao computing website at www.senaocomputing.com. The portfolio includes the SR810, SR710, SR610, SE210, and SE110 and is designed to support a broad range of enterprise computing and AI workloads, including generative AI, AI inference, model fine-tuning, data analytics, visualization, and intelligent edge computing. NVIDIA RTX GPU support is available in selected configurations.

Bringing AI Closer to Enterprise Data
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, organizations increasingly need computing infrastructure that can address different workload requirements while maintaining greater control over sensitive corporate data.

HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced the first four of its HPE ProLiant Gen13 Servers powered by 6th Generation AMD EPYC Server processors. The new systems expand compute, memory, and I/O capabilities to help enterprises accelerate agentic AI and inference, analytics, virtualization, simulation, and modeling while strengthening security, simplifying operations, and providing reliability across distributed IT environments.

As AI systems evolve from generating insights to taking autonomous action, trust becomes a prerequisite for scale. McKinsey's 2026 AI Trust Maturity Survey found that nearly two-thirds of respondents cited security and risk concerns as the top barrier to fully scaling agentic AI. Within this evolving landscape, HPE ProLiant Gen13 helps customers address security and operational barriers with a trusted infrastructure foundation that combines HPE iLO 8 innovations for automatic protection, infrastructure trust, and post-quantum readiness with enhanced visibility and control from HPE Compute Ops Management.

Dell has released a patch for its Dell System Update (DSU) software, version 2.3.0.0, to address a critical vulnerability affecting the tool. According to the latest DSU update information, several CVEs are present that impact the DSU command-line tool. The highest-rated CVE-2026-86360 involves a full system privilege escalation in DSU versions prior to the latest 2.3.0.0. This issue arises from an improper limitation of a pathname leading to a restricted directory, allowing potential attackers to execute code with root privileges. This vulnerability compromises the underlying operating system's security and becomes a significant concern.

DellDell System Update, versions prior to 2.3.0.0, contains an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Filesystem access for attacker. This vulnerability is considered critical because it can be leveraged by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Successful exploitation may allow complete compromise of the vulnerable application and underlying operating system. Dell recommends customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

TrendForce's latest memory industry research reveals that DRAM suppliers continue to prioritize advanced-process capacity for high-performance server products in 4Q26, keeping the overall market undersupplied. However, the pace of contract price increases is expected to moderate, with conventional DRAM prices projected to rise 10-15% QoQ.

Meanwhile, the NAND Flash market is seeing a divergence between accelerating AI demand and weak consumer demand, although prices are still rising across segments. Overall NAND Flash contract prices are projected to increase 15-20% QoQ.

AMD has published a white paper on its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and it takes direct aim at NVIDIA's Vera. These are first-party figures from AMD, so it is important to be cautious about their validity. In SPECrate 2026 Integer, AMD says the 256-core EPYC 9996 delivers 2.24 times the platform-level performance of an 88-core Vera system, while a 96-core, high-frequency Venice chip is claimed to be 1.2 times faster per core. Against Intel's Xeon 6980P, AMD reports gains of 2.4x to 3.7x in server-side Java, OpenSSL, MongoDB, Redis, NGINX and transaction processing, and up to 3.13x in HPC tests like GROMACS. Neither AMD nor NVIDIA can publish official SPEC results yet, so all of it is estimated.

The Vera figures come from NVIDIA's own white paper, and the 96-core part is an EPYC 9996 with several of its cores turned off. The per-subtest results also used GCC 16.1 on the AMD side against GCC 15.2 for NVIDIA, which Tom's Hardware notes is not best practice. The 2.24x figure compares a 512-thread flagship with Vera's 176 threads, so it is not a like-for-like matchup. AMD says Venice is in production, with major OEM platforms on track to launch and cloud providers starting deployments later this year. It's likely we will only get a real answer once independent reviewers get both chips on the same test bench.

After installing the latest Defender Antivirus update for Windows 11, users have started reporting that their operating system is sending notifications stating "Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off." Despite the Defender Antivirus protection working correctly, Windows has been pushing these notifications to users, with many of the TechPowerUp staff experiencing the error themselves. These notifications typically appear when the operating system is freshly booted up or immediately afterward. Interestingly, Defender Antivirus can send out notifications even when notification settings are turned off, and all versions of Windows or Windows Server are affected. Microsoft acknowledged the issue, stating:

MicrosoftWe are working to release a resolution in a future Microsoft Defender Antivirus update and will provide more information when it is available.

Apple is reportedly considering a return to the server market, where the company was once active with its Xserve rack technology. According to The Information, Apple is developing AI-focused M-series chips, which could incorporate several NVIDIA components, including the NVLink Fusion portfolio of technologies and IP. This includes the possibility of interconnecting two or four Apple M8 Ultra chips using NVIDIA NVLink for socket-to-socket communication, while NVIDIA NVLink-C2C manages die-to-die interconnection. Currently planned for launch in 2029, this product would mark Apple's first entry into the server space since debuting Xserve in 2002 and discontinuing it in 2011. Nearly two decades later, Apple's server offering might be making a comeback, building on the success that the Mac mini and Mac Studio are experiencing among AI developers.

For instance, Apple's Mac lineup achieved a record $10.4 billion in sales last quarter, with strong demand from the AI community. Enterprises are even constructing custom racks, mounting multiple Mac Studios to set up local AI inferencing efforts. For the new server design, Apple would delegate every interconnect question to NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, while it focuses on the actual system-on-chip as before. The new rack design would target enterprises and governments, who may already be running Mac clusters locally.

Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced a major milestone in memory innovation with the successful demonstration of the world's first 512 GB DDR5 module on multiple server platforms. The achievement reinforces Micron's leadership in high-performance, high-capacity server memory and provides enterprise data center and cloud customers with a path to support large and demanding AI, analytics, in-memory database and simulation-heavy workloads with greater efficiency. Leading semiconductor enablers, AMD and Intel, are both actively validating the module, which will deliver speeds up to 9,200 MT/s.

The module's high capacity is possible due to Micron's advanced vertical interconnect packaging innovations. This product vertically stacks DRAM dies interconnected by through-silicon vias (TSVs) to maximize density within individual DRAM packages while preserving the performance modern data center architectures demand. The module enables up to 12 TB of DDR5 DRAM in a single 24-slot dual-socket server.

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it will begin global sales of its next-generation CPU, FUJITSU-MONAKA, designed and developed in Japan, starting November 2026. This will include sales of the processor as a standalone product to cloud and data center operators and server vendors. Additionally, the company will launch the made-in-Japan Fujitsu MONAKA Server equipped with the FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU, offering high reliability and power efficiency as a sovereign AI infrastructure. Fujitsu MONAKA Server will be made broadly available from November 2026 to data center operators, enterprises, and the academic and HPC sectors in Japan and Europe, as well as to the defense sector, contributing to national security.

The FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU integrates Fujitsu's extensive expertise in processor and server development, achieving world-class computational performance and data supply capabilities with a maximum operating frequency of 3.8 GHz and memory transfer speed of 8800 MT/s. It delivers twice the AI inference throughput and superior power efficiency compared to other CPUs, effectively halving the number of servers and power consumption required for equivalent processing loads.

New photos shared by HKEPC allegedly show pallets of brand-new, boxed GeForce RTX 5090 cards being unpacked at AI server assembly sites. Notably, these firms are not using the RTX PRO 6000 or dedicated data center accelerators NVIDIA actually markets for that work. The cards in question are standard retail RTX 5090s, the same cards gamers have struggled to find at anywhere close to MSRP, being pulled straight from their packaging and slotted into multi-GPU AI rigs. It must be mentioned that some elements of these photos appear to be altered, or at least edited with AI, so take these with a bit of caution.

Despite that, the current situation is not entirely new. During the crypto boom, miners bought up GeForce cards in bulk while gamers got squeezed out, and NVIDIA eventually responded with Lite Hash Rate models that throttled mining performance without touching gaming specs. That restriction got fully bypassed within about a year. This time, the workload is AI instead of mining, but the outcome for gamers looks familiar. As a result, retail RTX 5090 pricing has reportedly climbed past $5,000 on some listings, more than double its $1,999 launch price. Industry analysts even warned about this possibility months ago, and we now have a good idea why the RTX 5090 is at the price it's at.

In September, Microsoft released fixes for 999 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest batches of fixes the company has ever issued. Out of these 999 patches, 723 vulnerabilities have been reportedly patched on Windows alone. For Office and Office 2016, about 111 fixes were released, while SQL Server received 62. Third-party projects received an additional 25 fixes. However, the majority of the focus was on Windows, where two vulnerabilities with very high severity were addressed. Microsoft confirmed that these were being actively exploited to unlock local privileges and allow code and program execution without any issues. These vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-81963 and CVE-2026-85880, have now been patched.

As readers may recall, Microsoft is working on expanding its memory integrity protection feature across its global Windows 11 installations, with the rollout beginning in October. For those unaware, memory integrity protection enhances operating system security at the kernel level, safeguarding it from sophisticated attacks by malicious actors. Using Virtualization-based Security (VBS), the OS employs hardware virtualization to create Windows hypervisors that dedicate isolated virtual environments. The OS always operates under the assumption that the kernel can be compromised.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration to meet surging global demand for AI infrastructure as demand continues to accelerate. Building on already-rapid customer adoption of NVIDIA-accelerated compute on AWS, the companies plan to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across AWS's global infrastructure and deepen their work together across AI factories, CPUs, networking, open models, data processing and robotics, delivering co-engineered AI solutions that enable customers to accelerate AI development and deployment at unprecedented scale.

AI workloads are scaling at a swift pace, from how models are trained and run, to how data is processed, indexed and used to power intelligent applications. Customers are moving from pilot to production and scaling workloads across agentic AI, scientific discovery, enterprise automation and robotics. They need broader model choice, faster data pipelines and new capabilities for emerging use cases like physical AI. They also need confidence that the underlying infrastructure can keep pace with their own ability to innovate while maintaining the highest level of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads.

Intel's approach to releasing the latest CPU technology differs significantly from AMD's. Robert Hallock, the company's VP and general manager of the enthusiast business, confirms that desktop PC DIY enthusiasts are the first to experience the latest CPU cores. In an interview with Tom's Hardware, Hallock emphasized that Intel prioritizes bringing its newest CPU cores to desktops first, subtly hinting at the upcoming "Nova Lake-S" processor generation. Unlike AMD, which introduces its latest core designs in the server segment first, Intel debuts them on the desktop. While these cores will eventually be used in Xeon server processors, they initially appear on the desktop platform. This means that the "Coyote Cove" P-Cores and "Arctic Wolf" E-Cores will first be available for desktops, in contrast to AMD's Zen 6 CPU technology, which debuts with the EPYC "Venice" and only later appears in desktop CPUs.

Intel's Robert HallockWhat I would say is, as we think about our own roadmap, I have a new core. It's coming to desktop first. I mean, I hope enthusiasts do the math about that one, and that's all I'm going to say.

Following a round of layoffs and the apparent cancellation of an in-progress Lord of the Rings MMO, Amazon has officially cancelled active development of both Throne of Liberty and Lost Ark, announcing that it would hand off server management to each game's respective dev team. This is only Amazon's latest move in what was previously revealed to be a shift in strategy away from game development.

This means that Throne of Liberty will be fully in the hands of NCSoft's Western division, FirstSpark Games, and Lost Ark will be handed over to Smilegate. Lost Ark is expected to transition to its new management in early 2027, while Throne of Liberty will move over in Q4 2026, although no specific dates have been set. From a player perspective, there will be changes, but both studios have promised to minimize interruptions.

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced its third-generation (Gen 3) DDR5 Multiplexed Rank Dual In-Line Memory Module (MRDIMM) chipset solutions, delivering DDR5 server-class MRDIMM speeds up to 16,000 mega transfers per second (MT/s). The new solutions are designed to address the growing demand for higher memory bandwidth driven by artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, cloud infrastructure and accelerated compute workloads.

Renesas will showcase memory interface components for Gen 3 MRDIMMs at FMS 2026 (Future of Memory and Storage Conference), Santa Clara, California, August 4-6, 2026. (Booth #807) They include third-generation Multiplexed Registering Clock Driver (MRCD, RRG5013) and Multiplexed Data Buffer (MDB, RRG5103) devices that support next-generation MRDIMM performance.

Following a similar story relating to PlayStation Account server errors just a few days prior, on the launch of the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta, Xbox has seemingly run into issues during the advanced access launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved. The resulting Xbox outage has resulted in gamers being unable to access core online features, such as account login, game downloads, the Xbox Store and subscriptions, and launching apps on console and mobile. Reportedly, the newly added Xbox Backwards Compatibility feature has also experienced issues during the server outage.

Microsoft, for its part has acknowledged the issues and says it is working on a fix, but, at the time of writing, the outage has already been over 12 hours since the uptick in issue reports on Downdetector. Both this Xbox outage and the previous week's PlayStation outage have come shortly after PlayStation announced that it would stop producing physical games media as soon as 2028, and it is expected that Xbox will follow suit.

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls officially started an open beta test on the morning of July 24, but shortly after the beta went live, users started reporting that they could not access the game due to a PlayStation Account error. The beta, went live across PC, PS5, and Xbox platforms, has reportedly been inaccessible to many players for much of the day, with Downdetector showing between 1,500 and 7,000 error reports every 15 minutes by users since the early hours of the open beta. Errors don't seem to be limited to any specific system, which makes sense, since the PlayStation Account login is required for all platforms. Arc System Works and PlayStation have acknowledged the issue, commenting in a post on X that there will be server maintenance until 16:00 PST (01:00 UTC).

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MiTAC Computing Technology Corp., a global leader in high-performance, energy-efficient server solutions and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings Corporation (TWSE:3706), is highlighting its latest agentic AI infrastructure at AMD Advancing AI. MiTAC's showcase focuses on its premier exhibition lineup, featuring its latest liquid-cooled and air-cooled AI servers and next-generation multi-node platforms built on the new 6th Gen AMD EPYC Server CPUs. As part of the launch, MiTAC is introducing a portfolio of next-generation platforms designed to help customers scale AI, cloud, HPC and enterprise workloads with greater performance, efficiency and flexibility.

The new MiTAC M2810Z6 and M2610Z6 systems, powered by 6th Gen EPYC Server CPUs, reflect MiTAC's commitment to delivering infrastructure choices that align compute density, memory bandwidth, and I/O capability with evolving data center requirements. With support for AMD's Venice "Zen 6" architecture, PCIe Gen 6 I/O subsystem, and CXL 3.1, these platforms are engineered to meet the demands of modern AI-driven environments while optimizing power and system density.