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A QEMU Patch Exposes AMD EPYC Venice’s Security Win

QEMU patches confirm AMD EPYC Venice details and flag Zen 6 server chips as immune to SRSO.

Key takeaways

  • Four QEMU patches have narrowed the uncertainty around AMD EPYC “Venice” before AMD has even put the Zen 6 server CPU on stage.
  • AMD software engineer Ben Cheatham submitted the patch series on June 30, 2026, adding an official “Epyc-Venice” CPU model to QEMU’s x86 emulation code, ac...
  • That matters because this is not a random benchmark screenshot. QEMU is a widely used open source machine emulator and virtualizer, and CPU model support there helps o...
  • The second confirmation is just as important: a separate OpenBenchmarking lscpu submission from a real Epyc-Venice engineering sample lines up with the QEMU pa...

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Canonical source: https://mlxio.com/technology/amd-epyc-venice-qemu-patch

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