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News Summary AMD introduces new Ryzen AI 400 and PRO 400 Series processors, delivering up to 60 NPU TOPS for Copilot+ PCs and AI experiences
AMD has rolled out one of its broadest PC platform updates in years at CES 2026, unveiling new laptop and desktop processors, an AI-focused mini PC and fresh software features aimed at making on-device AI and better graphics the default across the PC market.
AMD has introduced the Ryzen AI Embedded P100 and X100 x86 processors designed to power AI-driven applications at the edge, such as automotive digital
AMD also compares the Ryzen AI Max+ directly against the Apple MacBook Pro M5 and finds it to offer superior performance in local AI, content creation, multitasking, and gaming. These results are plausible considering our own testing, although we don't have a MacBook Pro M5 on hand to compare against just yet.
AMD also is updating its workstation-level Ryzen AI Max+ mobile processors with two new models: the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and the eight-core Ryzen AI Max+ 388. They’re notable for a system-on-chip designs that employs a bank of shared memory that can be allocated ad-hoc between the main system memory and graphics.
News Highlights New AMD Ryzen™ AI Embedded P100 and X100 Series processors combine high-performance “Zen 5” CPU cores, an AMD RDNA™ 3.5 GPU and
AMD unveils MI440X and Ryzen AI Embedded chips to challenge Nvidia in AI hardware, boosting edge and data-center performance.
Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor kicks up the clocks and packs the same extra-fast cache in an effort to outpace the well-regarded Ryzen 7 9800X3D.