AMD Zen 4 Epyc CPU could be an epic 128-core, 256-thread monster

The next-gen AMD Zen 4 Epyc processors might have as many as 128 cores and 256 threads in a single CPU socket – double what existing Zen 3 Epyc processors currently have.

AMD Zen 4 is the company’s next major architecture revision, codenamed Genoa, and is set to be a huge step up from the existing Zen 3 architecture. While it was known that Zen 4 Epyc processors would have more cores than existing Zen 3 CPUs, rumors that they will actually double the number of cores over the previous generation is a pretty huge deal, assuming the rumors are true.

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