AMD confirms Zen6 Ryzen “Medusa” CPUs during OCP Global Summit

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AMD Venice and Medusa appear on an official AMD slide



AMD engineers have officially confirmed the long-rumored codenames Medusa and Venice for upcoming Zen 6 processors during their session at the OCP Global Summit 2025. The confirmation appeared on an openSIL roadmap slide presented by Raj Kapoor, AMD Fellow and Chief Firmware Architect, and Srini Narayana, AMI Vice President of Boot Firmware.

The session, titled “Building Open Firmware for Open Platforms: openSIL & The Road to Full Silicon Transparency,” outlined AMD’s plan to replace its proprietary AGESA firmware with openSIL, an open-source silicon initialization framework designed to improve transparency, security, and customization.


Source: OCP Global Summit

The roadmap includes two milestones for AMD’s open firmware rollout. 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” will be the first production-grade server platform to ship with openSIL firmware, scheduled for 2026 with code release about one quarter later. Ryzen Zen 6 “Medusa” will follow as the next client platform, with its open-source release planned for the first half of 2027.

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