AMD launched the Threadripper Halo Station on Friday, a desktop AI workstation the company described as a personal supercomputer, with commercial release planned for early next year.. AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh unveiled the system at the Internationale Funkausstellung event in Berlin and said it was the “most powerful workstation in the world,” capable of running AI models with more than 1 trillion parameters..
The Threadripper Halo Station includes up to 2 terabytes of system memory, up to 576 gigabytes of HBM3E memory, 96 Threadripper Pro cores and two MI350P data center accelerators. The system uses liquid cooling.. Huynh demonstrated the machine by generating a 3D world and a flight simulator from a single prompt during the event..
AMD said the system is designed to bring data center level AI performance to a desktop format. The company has not disclosed pricing.. The machine could cost more than 100,000 euros, positioning it for corporate and institutional buyers rather than individual consumers..
AMD is pitching the workstation as a way for customers to run large language models and agentic AI systems on their own infrastructure instead of relying on cloud computing.. Its direct competitor is Nvidia’s DGX Station, which is also built to run large AI models in a desktop form factor.
AMD’s system offers more than three times the memory capacity of Nvidia’s comparable offering, allowing trillion-parameter AI models to run locally.. Nvidia’s DGX Station is already on the market and sells for about 100,000 euros, while offering tighter integration for moving code from a local workstation to the cloud..
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