At Computex Taipei this week, AMD revealed its AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series third generation of AI-enabled mobile processors for next-generation laptops. It joins Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake and the Snapdragon X platform from Qualcomm among the chips vying for a place in the exploding market for artificial intelligence processing, an area dominated by Nvidia. However, with AI PCs and laptops just hitting the market that field is somewhat in play. The Ryzen AI 300s are among those that will be used to power laptops equipped with Microsoft Copilot+ AI. At Computex, AMD also unveiled its Ryzen 9000 Series processors for desktop PCs.

“AI is our number one priority and we’re at the beginning of an incredibly exciting time for the industry as AI transforms virtually every business, improves our quality of life, and reshapes every part of the computing market,” AMD CEO and chair Lisa Su said at the tech conference, as reported by CNBC.

Both the Ryzen AI 300 (pictured above) and Ryzen 9000 lines are due to launch in July, less than two months after AMD announced two other AI-enabled chips, the laptop-ready Ryzen Pro 8040 and Pro 8000 for desktops.

“Chip firms are racing to launch faster and more powerful processors to stay relevant in the AI race,” with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vowing to advance his company’s AI chip with new tech every year, says CNBC.

AMD’s latest Ryzen AI chips are built on “architectures for neural, integrated graphics, and general processing: XDNA2 for the NPU, RDNA 3.5 for the iGPU, which now has up to 16 compute units, and Zen 5 for the CPU,” explains The Verge, providing all available specs.

The first two entries in this series are “the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365. Both have 50 TOPS NPU, but the HX variant is the higher-end of the two,” The Verge reports.

Also at Computex, AMD detailed its data center chip roadmap, with the Instinct MI325X accelerators — a beefed up version of the MI300 series — planned for availability in the fourth quarter.

The next-generation Instinct MI350 series is scheduled for release in 2025, with the Instinct MI400 planned for 2026. The Instinct MI325X accelerators will pack 288GB of the industry-leading HBM3E memory to extend generative AI performance, according to an AMD news announcement.

AMD also previewed its 5th generation EPYC processors (codenamed Turin), which leverage the new Zen 5 core. The new EPYC processors are expected to hit the market later this year, AMD said.

Related:
AMD Unveils Latest AI Chips, Accelerated Chip Update Timeline, The Wall Street Journal, 6/3/24
Watch Everything Announced from AMD Keynote at Computex 2024 (Video), CNET, 6/2/24
Nvidia and AMD Are Bringing Microsoft’s Copilot Plus AI Features to Gaming Laptops, The Verge, 6/2/24
Nvidia and AMD Unveil Next Generation AI Chips as Competition Heats Up, CNN, 6/4/24