AMD announced launch of server-grade performance delivering EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors at Embedded World 2025, which are designed to power compute-intensive embedded systems with support for core counts from 8 to 192 in a single socket.
Suggested as ideal processors for network and security firewall platforms, storage systems and industrial control applications, these processors use Zen 5c core architecture delivering higher throughput with greater energy efficiency, delivering up to an estimated 1.3X increase in socket throughput and an estimated 1.3X better performance/Watt compared to the competition, as claimed by AMD.
Feature capacity of up to 6TB of DDR5 memory per socket and expanded I/O connectivity, supporting up to 160 PCIe Gen5 lanes with CXL 2.0, allows storage capacity expansion and high-speed data transfers for networking and storage applications.
AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series CPUs provide extended 7-year product manufacturing support and AMD plans to extend design lifetime operation targets from 5 years on currently sampling AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series CPUs, to 7 years for production SKUs, ensuring long-term product stability for embedded systems.
System Resiliency and Security features include NTB (Non-Transparent Bridging) for increased high availability in fault tolerant multi-host configurations. NTB enhances system redundancy and failover capabilities for networking and storage systems by enabling data exchange between two CPUs in active-active configurations via PCI Express (PCIe®) to allow continued operation in case of a failure. DRAM Flush enhances reliability in mission-critical storage deployments by helping to prevent data loss in the event of a power failure by flushing it from DRAM to non-volatile memory.
Dual SPI (serial peripheral interface) enables customers to load a secure and proprietary bootloader to authenticate the platform, ensuring a trusted execution environment.
AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are currently sampling with early access customers, with production shipments expected to begin in the second quarter of 2025.
