Summary
AMD says Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s upcoming Compute E7 instances will use 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors. AMD Pensando data processing units will also underpin Oracle Acceleron converged network cards for OCI instances powered by AMD CPUs and GPUs.
AMD and Oracle are expanding their cloud infrastructure collaboration: AMD says Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will use 6th Gen AMD EPYC server processors in upcoming Compute E7 instances, while AMD Pensando data processing units (DPUs) will provide the programmable foundation for Oracle Acceleron converged network cards in OCI instances powered by AMD CPUs and GPUs. AMD announced the plans at Oracle AI World 2026 on October 27.
What the E7 instances are intended to run
AMD says Compute E7 will support enterprise applications and CPU-based services that work alongside AI models. The listed workloads include agent orchestration, concurrent agent sandboxes, retrieval services and in-memory caches, as well as web, API and broader enterprise application tiers. E7 Acceleron Standard virtual machines are also described as offering flexible compute and memory configurations.
These are roles in the wider AI software stack, rather than model training alone. CPUs can run application logic and coordinate services that supply data to models or handle requests around them. That means cloud infrastructure for AI can involve conventional compute tasks as well as accelerators used for AI workloads.
Pensando DPUs and Oracle Acceleron
A DPU is a processor used to handle data-centre infrastructure functions. In this collaboration, AMD says Pensando DPUs will accelerate networking, storage and security functions in hardware for Oracle Acceleron converged NICs. A network interface card (NIC) connects a server to a network; in this design, the DPU also handles infrastructure work that would otherwise use host CPU capacity.
AMD says this offloading is intended to preserve CPU resources for customer applications while supporting AI, database, cloud-native and enterprise workloads. The company also describes Pensando as a programmable foundation for OCI to evolve networking, storage, security and observability services as workload demands change.
The announcement extends a multigeneration relationship between AMD and Oracle, but the specific E7 instances are described as upcoming. Oracle’s accompanying future-product disclaimer says roadmap information is not a commitment to deliver a product or feature, and that development and release timing remain at Oracle’s discretion.