Overview

• Rahul Tikoo, AMD’s head of client CPUs, confirmed the company is in early-stage talks with customers to assess demand and use cases for a discrete AI accelerator card
• The proposed add-in board would feature a dedicated neural processing unit chip leveraging AMD’s XDNA technology rather than a traditional GPU
• By targeting the desktop PC segment, AMD aims to fill a gap left by data-center-focused AI cards and GPU-centric solutions
• AMD’s experience shipping integrated XDNA NPUs in its laptop processors underpins its ability to scale the technology into a standalone card
• If customer interest meets financial viability thresholds, AMD says it could fast-track development and bring the discrete AI accelerator to market