# AMD Ramps 256-Core EPYC Venice on TSMC 2nm, the First HPC Chip on N2 With a 70% Performance Leap

*2026-05-27 06:01 UTC · Technology · 1 min read*

> AMD's 6th-gen EPYC Venice enters production on TSMC 2nm, the first HPC chip on N2, scaling to 256 Zen 6 cores with a claimed 70% performance gain.

AMD has begun production ramp of its 6th-generation EPYC server processor, codenamed Venice, on TSMC's 2nm (N2) process in Taiwan, making it the first high-performance computing chip in the industry to reach production on the new node. The Zen 6 design scales to 256 cores and delivers up to 1.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

AMD claims Venice offers up to a 70% compute performance gain over the current EPYC Turin generation. Beyond Taiwan, the company plans to eventually manufacture the chip at TSMC's Arizona campus and has already teased a follow-on design, Verano, that integrates LPDDR memory for memory-hungry AI workloads.

Venice anchors AMD's Helios rack-scale platform, which pairs the CPUs with Instinct MI450X GPUs and is on track for multi-gigawatt deployments starting in the second half of 2026.

## Sources

- [tomshardware.com](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/amd-begins-production-ramp-of-256-core-epyc-venice-on-tsmcs-2nm-node)
- [amd.com](https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-5-20-amd-announces-production-ramp-of-next-generation-a.html)

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