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AMD says Zen 6 wasn't built around agentic AI.

Four years ago, AMD didn’t know agentic computing would become a thing, executive Madhu Rangarajan said. He said the company never set out to build its Zen 6 EPYC 9006 “Venice” chips around agentic AI. Still, Rangarajan called EPYC 9006 the best CPU for agentic workloads, arguing that those workflows mix different tasks and need compute that can handle varied work. AMD chief Zen architect Mike Clark made a similar point in a separate talk: the company hadn’t foreseen agentic computing, though it expected CPUs to remain part of AI software. TechPowerUp frames that against Nvidia and Arm pitching their latest server CPUs as made for agentic AI.

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