AMD Threadripper Halo Station: 96-Core AI Workstation with MI350P
At IFA 2026, AMD announced the Threadripper Halo Station, a workstation packing a 96-core Threadripper Pro 9995WX and dual liquid-cooled MI350P accelerators, designed to run trillion-parameter models. AMD claims it's "the most powerful workstation in the world," though no OEM partners have been announced yet.
Core specs
- CPU: Threadripper Pro 9995WX — 96 Zen 5 cores, 192 threads, boost up to 5.4 GHz, 384 MB L3 cache, 350W TDP.
- Accelerators: Dual liquid-cooled Instinct MI350P, with a path to four.
- Memory: 2 TB DDR5 system RAM.
- HBM: 288 GB HBM3E on the GPUs, with up to 576 GB supported (presumably with four accelerators).
The machine essentially reconfigures a server tray into a tower, swapping an EPYC host for the Threadripper. AMD has not detailed the full system design or pricing, but street price for just the CPU, GPUs, and 2 TB of RAM is over $100,000. A fully configured unit—with storage, power, and cooling—could easily exceed $150,000.
AMD hasn't announced which OEMs will build and ship the system. Given the price and target workload (running trillion-parameter models locally), this is squarely aimed at AI research labs and enterprise teams that need on-prem inference without cloud round-trips.
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