AMD returned to the IFA keynote stage on September 4, 2026, in Berlin, with Jack Huynh, the company's SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, delivering an opening address titled "The Era of Personal AI: The Future of Imagination." Huynh had previewed the event by saying that AI power that has lived in the data center for years would "get personal," and used the keynote to introduce a new workstation called the Threadripper Halo Station.
The system is built around AMD's Threadripper PRO 9995WX CPU, codenamed "Shimada Peak," a 96-core, 192-thread Zen 5 chip that can boost up to 5.4 GHz. Tom's Hardware reported additional detail that the chip carries 384 MB of L3 cache and a 350W TDP, and noted standalone Threadripper Pro chips like this one typically sell for around $11,000 to $12,000. The workstation supports up to 2TB of DDR5 system memory across the CPU's eight memory channels, which Tom's Hardware estimated would cost roughly $50,000 on its own.
Alongside the CPU, the workstation pairs up to four AMD Instinct MI350P accelerators, built on CDNA 4 compute units using TSMC's N3 process. Each MI350P carries 144GB of HBM3E memory running at 4 TB/s, which AMD says offers bandwidth 14 times higher than LPDDR5X. The configuration shown at IFA used two MI350P cards for a total of 288GB of HBM3E, with an upgrade path to four cards and 576GB total. AMD says this amount of memory is enough to hold a trillion-parameter AI model entirely on the device, letting users run models with more than one trillion parameters without a cloud connection. Each accelerator has a TBP of up to 600W and is liquid-cooled independently, as is the CPU.
Tom's Hardware described the design as essentially a server tray reconfigured into a tower, with the typical EPYC server host replaced by the Threadripper chip. AMD has not announced OEM partners to build and ship the system, and full system specifications, availability, and official pricing have not been disclosed by AMD.
Because AMD has not released pricing, Tom's Hardware offered its own estimate based on component costs, suggesting the core parts alone — CPU, memory, and dual GPUs — could put the street price over $100,000, and potentially over $150,000 once storage, power, and cooling are factored in; it noted MI350P accelerators are estimated at around $20,000 each. As a reference point, Tom's Hardware cited the Lenovo ThinkStation P8, a Threadripper Pro-based workstation with 2TB of DDR5 and dual Blackwell accelerators, which currently costs $334,463 fully configured.
Huynh described the Threadripper Halo Station as a new class of workstation bringing supercomputer-class compute to individual users and developers. Ahead of the keynote, some coverage had speculated AMD might use the event to launch other products, such as the Ryzen AI MAX 400 portfolio or new FSR software updates, but the sources provided here confirm only the Threadripper Halo Station announcement itself, with pricing and release timing still undetermined.