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AMD VP and chief Zen architect rebuke claims that Nvidia and Arm made CPUs for agentic AI — ‘We didn’t magically know four years ago that agentic was going to be a thing’

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AMD VP and chief Zen architect rebuke claims that Nvidia and Arm made CPUs for agentic AI — ‘We didn’t magically know four years ago that agentic was going to be a thing’

Two prominent voices within AMD agree that the company didn’t design its new Zen 6 family, codenamed Venice, explicitly for agentic AI in a clear shot at Nvidia and Arm, who’ve both described their latest data center CPUs as “agentic” in nature. In separate talks, AMD’s chief Zen architect Mike Clark and corporate VP Madhu Rangarajan said that the company didn’t predict the agentic wave when Zen 6 development started.

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CPU development cycles are measured in years, and given that the agentic frenzy around CPUs hit around March of this year, it’s unreasonable to expect that anyone has developed silicon specifically for agentic AI, much less a general-purpose data center CPU. And still, Nvidia claims its Vera CPU was “purpose-built” for agentic AI, while Arm says its AGI CPU was “designed for the demands of agentic AI.”

“We think that the EPYC 9006 CPU is the best CPU for the agentic era, and spoiler alert, we didn’t magically know four years ago that agentic was going to be a thing and purpose-built something for agentic,” said Rangarajan in a session with media.


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