The Roadmap

AMD showed a four-generation server roadmap on a two-year cadence:


The interesting entry is "ACE: AI Compute Extensions" against Zen 7 in 2028. AMD gave no detail, but a named compute extension block sitting on a CPU roadmap suggests something more substantial than another vector instruction set. The Helion rack roadmap tracks alongside it, with Helion Gen 2 on Florence in 2028 and Gen 3 on Ravenna in 2030.

Availability

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Microsoft Azure is first to market, announcing a preview of HDv2 built on dual 256-core Venice sockets, with claimed 1.8x performance on a 1.3 TB SparkETL data processing run against the closest contemporary alternative. Azure also announced HXv2 on Venice-X for silicon design and technical computing, and ND MI455X v7 Helios servers.