GoKawiilAMD's Threadripper Halo Station pairs a 96-core CPU with dual MI350P GPUs for local AI work
AMD used IFA 2026 to reveal the Threadripper Halo Station, a workstation built around a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX processor and two liquid-cooled Instinct MI350P accelerators, with 2TB of system DDR5 and up to 576GB of HBM3E memory across GPUs. AMD says the machine can handle trillion-parameter AI models and describes it as the most powerful workstation available, though it has not named any OEM partners to actually build and sell it yet.
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Pricing for just the core CPU, memory and dual GPUs would likely exceed $100,000, positioning this as a niche tool for enterprises or research labs wanting to run massive AI models without relying on cloud infrastructure. Its server-tray-in-a-tower design signals AMD's push to bring data-center-grade AI compute into single-user desktop form factors, competing directly with Nvidia's high-end workstation offerings.
- Threadripper Pro 9995WX offers 96 cores, 192 threads, and boosts to 5.4GHz with a 350W TDP.
- Dual MI350P accelerators provide 288GB of HBM3E now, with a possible expansion to four GPUs and 576GB.
- No OEM partners have been announced yet, and estimated system cost could exceed $150,000 when fully configured.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Processor — If AMD's six-figure Halo Station has you dreaming of a 96-core desktop, the Threadripper PRO 7995WX is the retail chip that gets you into that class of workstation silicon today. It's built for heavy multithreaded work like rendering, simulation and local AI experimentation, and it drops into sTR5 workstation boards with massive memory and PCIe expansion for accelerators.
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