AMD Unveils Threadripper Halo Station: 96-Core Workstation to Run Trillion-Parameter AI Models

AMD unveils Threadripper Halo Station, an AI workstation packing 96 cores and dual liquid-cooled MI350P accelerators -- 'the most powerful workstation in the world' can run trillion-parameter models, says AMD

The machine will likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. AMD announced what it calls "the most powerful workstation in the world" at IFA 2026, dubbed the Threadripper Halo Station. The machine includes a Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 Zen 5 cores, dual liquid-cooled Instinct MI350P accelerators "with a path to four," 2TB of DDR5, and 288GB of HBM3E with up to 576GB supported. AMD claims the workstation is capable of running trillion-parameter models. Taking all of the components together, the street price should come out to over $100,000 with just the core components: memory, CPU, and dual GPUs. Configured higher, and with supporting storage, power, and cooling, the workstation could very easily climb over $150,000. It's essentially a server tray reconfigured into a tower, with an EPYC host replaced with a 96-core Threadripper. AMD didn't share many details about the machine outside of the specs, though it appears to be a system design that AMD's OEM partners will ultimately build and ship. AMD has yet to announce any partners supporting the machine. The Threadripper Pro 9995WX at the heart of the machine is a 96-core, 192-thread Zen 5 chip that can boost up to 5.4 GHz. It ships with 384 MB of L3 cache and has a TDP of 350W. It's hard to find Threadripper Pro standalone chips in general, but the 9995WX clocks in at around $11,000 to $12,000. The MI350P accelerators come with 128 CDNA 4 compute units built on TSMC N3. Each accelerator packs 144GB of HBM3E memory, giving the system 288GB of HBM3E. AMD says there's a "path to four," opening up the possibility of two more accelerators bringing 576GB of HBM3E to the system. You'll need plenty of power to feed the GPUs, as each accelerator is rated for up to 600W. Although AMD says it can support up to four accelerators, the workstation shown off at IFA only has room for two, both of which are liquid-cooled, alongside the Threadripper host. AMD doesn't sell MI350P accelerators on their own in traditional consumer channels, but the estimated price is somewhere around $20,000 per accelerator. At a system level, the Threadripper Halo Station includes 2TB of DDR5 memory, which is the maximum capacity supported across the eight-channel memory configuration of the Threadripper Pro 9995WX. AMD supports up to DDR5-6400 on the Threadripper, though it made no mention of speed during its IFA presentation. Regardless of speed, 2TB of DDR5 costs about $50,000 right now. AMD has yet to set a price or release date for the Threadripper Halo Station, though we'll likely hear more about the design from AMD's partners in the near future. An extremely expensive workstation isn't out of the question. The Lenovo ThinkStation P8, for instance, which uses Threadripper Pro CPUs as a host, clocks in at $334,463 right now, maxed out with 2TB of DDR5 and dual Blackwell accelerators. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News, or add us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds.

AMD Creates a Threadripper Desktop PC for AI Models

At IFA in Berlin this week, AMD introduced a new powerhouse desktop PC line, Threadripper Halo Station, designed to run AI models locally. "This is the most powerful workstation in the world," says AMD SVP and General Manager Jack Huynh. "Designed and engineered for a complete new era of computing, capable of running AI models that are a trillion parameters." The product is meant for businesses and software developers who prefer running AI in their office rather than in the cloud. The liquid-cooled desktop PC features a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX CPU and two enterprise-grade MI350P GPUs. Buyers can even expand it to four GPUs. "This is about as close as you can get to a personal supercomputer," Huynh adds. Pricing and launch date were not announced. But the product will likely be extremely expensive, given that it can feature up to 2TB of system memory and up to 576GB of high-bandwidth HBM3E memory if equipped with four GPUs. Threadripper Halo Station appears poised to compete with Nvidia's DGX Station tower PCs, which support AI models spanning up to 1 trillion parameters, for at least $100,000. Project Zenith Coming to Ryzen AI Halo PCs AMD's other notable announcement is Microsoft's Project Zenith, a special flavor of Windows 11 designed for software developers and coders, which we first saw at Build. Zenith will arrive on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo PCs, which launched in July as mini PCs for $3,999. Micro Center has been selling units with Windows 11 Pro or Linux. Project Zenith stands out for offering a suite of preinstalled developer tools and focusing on a "distraction-free Windows experience." Microsoft also created the OS for devices with 64GB or more of unified memory, enabling them to run large AI models locally. We don't have pricing or a launch date, but Microsoft says, "Project Zenith is just the beginning," while hinting that it's working with a range of PC makers on more developer-friendly systems.