First look: AMD used its IFA 2026 keynote to introduce the Threadripper Halo Station, a liquid-cooled workstation designed for running AI models with more than one trillion parameters locally rather than through a cloud service. AMD has not said when the Halo Station will be available. But the system points to a growing market for workstation-class AI hardware that gives developers more direct control over large-model workloads, including where data is processed and how models are deployed.
The system pairs the 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor with up to four Instinct MI350P accelerators. AMD demonstrated a two-card version at IFA, while a fully configured model with four accelerators would provide 576 GB of HBM3E memory – enough, the company said, to hold a trillion-parameter model on the machine itself.
AMD has not announced pricing, availability, or full system specifications. It also did not detail the Halo Station’s storage, networking, or chassis options, or whether it plans to sell the system directly or through workstation manufacturers and system integrators.
Each Instinct MI350P card includes 144 GB of HBM3E memory and delivers 4 TB/s of memory bandwidth. The two-card system demonstrated at IFA had 288 GB of HBM3E memory. A four-card version would provide 576 GB.
That memory capacity is central to the Halo Station’s purpose. Large models require substantial high-bandwidth memory to store weights and process data efficiently. AMD said the MI350P’s 4 TB/s of bandwidth is 14 times higher than that of any LPDDR5X variant.
The system also has significant power and cooling needs. Each MI350P accelerator can draw up to 600 watts of total board power. AMD said the cards are independently liquid-cooled, and the Threadripper processor has its own liquid-cooling setup.
The Threadripper PRO 9995WX, code-named Shimada Peak, is based on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. It has 96 cores, 192 threads and a boost clock of up to 5.4 GHz. The processor supports up to 2 TB of DDR5 system memory.
Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of Computing and Graphics, described the product as a new workstation category intended to bring “supercomputer-class compute” to individual users and developers.
