New chips same as the old chips AMD kicked off CES on Monday by unveiling a slew of desktop and mobile processors aimed at everyone from casual users and creative professionals to gamers and AI devs.

AMD's new family of Ryzen AI 400 series processors will launch inside of new laptops in Q1 2026 from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and more.

Most chips you’ll see in laptops will max out with the Ryzen AI 7 450, an 8-core CPU with a 5.1GHz clock speed and 24MB cache with only a 50 TOPS NPU. Overall, it’s a subdued update to one of AMD’s most prevalent CPUs.

AMD Introduces Ryzen AI Embedded Processor Portfolio, Powering AI-Driven Immersive Experiences in Automotive, Industrial and Physical AI

Dell, ASUS, Acer, HP, and Lenovo have partnered with AMD to launch new laptops with its latest AI-powered mobile chip this year.

As a quick refresher, Ryzen AI Max processors (aka Strix Halo) comprise one or two core chiplets (CCDs) plus a huge input/output chiplet (IOD) that houses a pretty beefy GPU. It has 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units (2560 shaders), with 64 MB of Level 3 cache, and a unified memory bus that's 256-bits wide.

AMD’s 2025 performance points to a shift from chips to platforms. CES 2026 reinforced execution, but this year's deployments will determine whether that strategy holds.

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su just showed off Helios, the company's new AI rack that will offer compute power to generative AI companies.