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AMD added two VNNI units late in Zen 6’s design

The extra VNNI capacity came late in Zen 6’s long design process. Clark says AMD added two units after the floor plan was set, as inference needs developed. He describes CPU-side AI work as orchestration, data-type manipulation and running smaller models. But Zen 6 isn’t meant to beat a GPU, he says. The added units address those roles for the CPU without casting it as a replacement for a GPU.

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