Gigabyte hacker spills details on next generation AMD Epyc Genoa series
Could the Zen 4 CPUs indeed ship with 96 cores?
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Confidential details aboutAMD’s upcoming EPYC 7004 “Genoa”serverCPU series, supposedly stolen by threat actors from Taiwanese hardware manufacturerGigabyte, appear to have been posted online.
Followinglast week’s ransomware attack, the threat actors revealed their loot contained all kinds of documents from various hardware manufacturers, including an American Megatrends debug document, anIntel"Potential Issues" document, an “Ice Lake D SKU stack update schedule”, and anAMDrevision guide.
It appears Gigabyte either didn’t engage with theransomwareoperators or was unable to agree on a ransom figure. Irrespective of what transpired, the threat actors later dumped all the confidential documents online after the expiry of the ransom deadline.
German magazineComputerBasehas apparently perused documents posted by the threat actors and revealed that a revision document dated July 2021 describes a variety of yet-to-be-announced technical details related to the Zen 4 Epyc CPUs.
AMD set to rule the server space?
According toVideocardz, the document describes the revised motherboard thermal and power compatibility guidelines for the Zen 4 CPUs, including the layout of the compute tiles.
If the leaked documents are to be believed, AMD is upping the core count once again, and the Zen 4 Genoa server CPU will ship with up to 96 cores, and a whopping 192 threads. The documents also show the processor to be able to work with 12-channelDDR5 memory.
The increased compute comes at the cost of increased power consumption, and the documents show that the thermal design power (TDP) of the Genoa CPUs will be between 320W to 400W.
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Remember, however, that the authenticity of the documents has not yet been established, and the specs could be very different when Genoa CPUs hit the shelves next year.
When contacted, an AMD representative toldTechRadar Prothe company “won’t be commenting on the news of the leak at this time".
ViaVideocardz
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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