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Good morning friends. We’re standing in line outside the South Seas Ballroom in Mandalay Bay, waiting for AMD’s keynote at CES 2025 to start, and it’s sure to last between 45 minutes and an hour. I’ll be here to bring you the latest news as it’s released, as well as my take on what’s announced.
I’ll keep you posted once I’m in my seat, so stay tuned!
We’re five minutes away from the start of the AMD press conference, so it’s time to settle in.
AMD Senior Vice President Jack Huynh is taking the stage now, this time it’s not Lisa Su.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are the first.
Not to brag or anything…
Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D will arrive in March 2025.
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D is coming to laptops, along with a couple of non-X3D HX chips (I missed the model names of the other two, I’ll get to those in a second).
AMD Senior Vice President of Client Business Rahul Tikoo is on stage now to talk about AI PCs.
New Ryzen AI 300 chips, aimed at the mid-range user with Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen 5 340.
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Now we move on to the new Ryzen AI Max series, which are workstation CPUs with up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, which is a lot for an integrated GPU. Up to 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPUs and up to 256 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Well, we move on to the enterprise products, namely AMD Epyc and AMD Instinct data center CPUs and GPUs.
We also talked about AMD Ryzen AI 300 Pro.
I have no idea what TCO means, but Shell says AMD Ryzen CPUs offer the best, so that’s it.
Now executives from PC makers are praising AMD, including HP, Lenovo and Asus.
So Dell is now on stage with AMD talking about Dell’s first professional PCs and laptops to feature AMD chips. Oh, and Dell is completely renaming its entire product portfolio, but that’s for another news story.
Everyone keeps talking about the ‘AI revolution’, but honestly, so far I still haven’t seen anything in AI PCs that is truly revolutionary. I’m sure it will come at some point in the future, but the future isn’t here yet.
Well, the press conference is over and there was no discussion about AMD Radeon graphics cards, as we expected, but we know they are coming, so there could be more on that in the coming days.
For now, though, the big news is the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D chips launching in March, as well as new high-performance mobile devices for enthusiasts, gamers, and business users.
There will be more from me today, but for now, we have to leave the ballroom, so stay tuned for more from us here at CES 2025.
