Overview
- AMD formally launched the Ryzen AI 400 “Gorgon Point” family, adding the first desktop Copilot+ parts with flagship NPU performance up to 80 TOPS and optional LPDDR5x‑8533 support.
- Two Ryzen AI Max+ chips—Max+ 392 (12 cores/24 threads) and Max+ 388 (8 cores/16 threads) with full 40CU Radeon 8060S GPUs—were introduced, with OEM systems slated to ship starting in Q1 2026.
- The Ryzen AI Halo mini PC targets local inference on models up to 200 billion parameters, offers up to 128GB unified memory and up to 60 TFLOPS RDNA 3.5 graphics, and is planned for Q2 2026 availability.
- AMD confirmed Instinct MI500 for 2027 on TSMC’s 2nm process with the CDNA 6 architecture and HBM4E, aligning with the company’s stated pursuit of a greater than 1000× AI performance uplift over four years.
- Ecosystem launches spanned ASUS’s nine AMD 800‑series motherboards including the white ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial, Acer’s Veriton RA100 AI mini workstation and new gaming laptops, MSI’s EdgeXpert and x86 AI mini PCs, and GIGABYTE’s X3D boards plus GPU Selector and GiMATE software for generative AI.