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Oxide Plans New Rack Attack, Packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM

Oxide Computer News, Friday, February 13th, 2026

Oxide says AMD's Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

Remember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.

Founded in 2019 by a gaggle of former Joyent and Sun Microsystems engineers, the company set out to make the rack, not the server, the new unit of compute for the datacenter.

The result was a 7.8-foot-tall, 2,518-pound rack system rated for 15 kW of total power draw that runs a completely custom open source software stack.

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