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AMD Announces Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series Desktop CPUs For AI-Focused Computing

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AMD is using Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week to announce new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series products, including Ryzen AI PRO 400 desktop processors.

Complementing the existing Ryzen AI PRO 400 series, which complemented the Ryzen AI 400 series (non-PRO) introduction earlier this year at CES, is now new mobile workstation offerings. Still Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5 based.

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While what Phoronix readers will likely find most interesting is the new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series desktop processors. These are Zen 5 desktop socketed processors but now having the Ryzen AI NPU onboard for complementing local AI inference workloads.

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Ryzen AI PRO 400 series desktop processors will be available in up to 8 core / 16 thread Zen 5 configurations with up to 8 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units and the XDNA 2 NPU rated for 50 TOPS.

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The Ryzen AI PRO 400 series desktop CPUs being announced today include the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450G, Ryzen AI 5 PRO 440G / 440GE, and the Ryzen AI 5 PRO 435G / 435GE. The G processors are 65 Watt SKUs while the GE variants are 35 Watts.

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The Ryzen AI 400 series commercial designs are expected to appear in Q2.

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That's the brief overview for now with the limited information shared in advance of today's embargo lift for MWC 2026. More details and Linux benchmarks once having any hardware to test. It will be interesting to see if they can make the AMD Ryzen AI / XDNA story any more compelling for Linux users ahead of the new hardware appearing next quarter given the rather limited software ecosystem adoption thus far.



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Clippit Charged With Attempted Murder

Microsoft's Dancing Paper Clip turned violent last week and nearly killed
a university student testing a new Windows-based human-computer interface.
The victim is expected to make a full recovery, although psychiatrists
warn that the incident may scar him emotionally for life. "You can bet
this kid won't be using Windows or Office ever again," said one shrink.

The victim had been alpha-testing CHUG (Computer-Human Unencumbered
Groupware), a new interface in which the user controls the computer with
force-feedback gloves and voice activation.

"I was trying to write a term paper in Word," he said from his hospital
bed. "But then that damned Dancing Paper Clip came up and started annoying
me. I gave it the middle finger. It reacted by deleting my document, at
which point I screamed at it and threatened to pull the power cord. I
didn't get a chance; the force-feedback gloves started choking me."

"We told Clippit it had the right to remain silent, and so on," said a
campus police officer. "The paperclip responded, 'Hi, I'm Clippit, the
Office Assistant. Would you like to create a letter?' I said, 'Look here,
Mr. Paperclip. You're being charged with attempted murder.' At that point
the computer bluescreened."