AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked disconnected her keynote astatine CES 2026 with a connection astir what compute could deliver: AI for everyone.

As portion of that promise, AMD announced a caller enactment of AI processors arsenic the institution thinks AI-powered idiosyncratic computers are the mode of the future.

The semiconductor elephantine revealed AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, its latest mentation of its AI-powered PC chips, astatine the yearly CES conference connected Monday. The institution says the latest mentation of its Ryzen processor bid allows for 1.3x faster multitasking than its competitors and are 1.7x times faster astatine contented creation.

These caller chips diagnostic 12 CPU Cores, idiosyncratic processing units wrong a halfway processor, and 24 threads, autarkic streams of instruction

This is an upgrade to the Ryzen AI 300 Series processor that was announced successful 2024. AMD started producing the Ryzen processor bid successful 2017.

Rahul Tikoo, elder vice president and wide manager of AMD’s lawsuit business, said AMD has expanded to implicit 250 AI PC platforms connected the company’s caller property briefing. That represents a maturation 2x implicit the past year, helium added.

“In the years ahead, AI is going to beryllium a multi-layered cloth that gets woven into each level of computing astatine the idiosyncratic layer,” Tikoo said. “Our AI PCs and devices volition alteration however we work, however we play, however we make and however we link with each other.”

AMD besides announced the merchandise of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, the latest mentation of its gaming-focused processor.

“No substance who you are and however you usage exertion connected a regular basis, AI is reshaping mundane computing,” Tikoo said. “You person thousands of interactions with your PC each day. AI is capable to understand, larn context, bring automation, supply heavy reasoning and idiosyncratic customization to each individual.”

PCs that see either the Ryzen AI 300 Series processor oregon the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor go disposable successful the archetypal 4th of 2026.

The institution besides announced the latest mentation of its Redstone ray tracing technology, which simulates carnal behaviour of light, which allows for amended video crippled graphics without a show oregon velocity lag.

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