AMD Introduces AI-Integrated Chips for Ryzen, Instinct, and Epyc Brands

At a recent event in San Francisco, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed a new range of AI-powered chips. These span the company’s Ryzen, Instinct and Epyc brands, and are set to revolutionize AI computing for everyone from everyday business users to large-scale data centers.

Throughout the event, AMD subtly compared itself to competitors like Nvidia and Intel. The company emphasized its commitment to providing open and accessible technology to a wide range of customers, without trying to trap them in proprietary solutions.

Su highlighted the transformative potential of AI, stating it will enhance personal productivity, improve collaboration with features like real-time translation, and simplify life for both creators and ordinary users. She also emphasized the importance of local processing to protect user privacy. Su revealed that the new AMD Ryzen AI Pro PCs will be CoPilot+-ready and offer an impressive battery life of up to 23 hours (or nine hours when using Microsoft Teams).

“We’ve been collaborating closely with AI PC ecosystem developers,” she said, adding that over 100 developers will be working on AI apps by the end of the year.

Introducing Commercial AI Mobile Ryzen Processors

AMD unveiled its third-generation commercial AI mobile processors. These are specifically designed to revolutionize business productivity with Copilot+ features such as live captioning and language translation in conference calls, and advanced AI image generators. If you wish, you could use AI-based Microsoft Teams for up to nine hours on new laptops equipped with the AMD processors.

The new Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors deliver industry-leading AI compute, with up to three times the AI performance than the previous generation of AMD processors. More than 100 products using the Ryzen processors are on the way through 2025.

Enabled with AMD PRO Technologies, the Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors offer high security and manageability features designed to streamline IT operations and ensure exceptional ROI for businesses.

Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors feature new AMD Zen 5 architecture, delivering outstanding CPU performance, and are the world’s best line up of commercial processors for Copilot+ enterprise PCs5. Zen, now in its fifth generation, has been the foundation behind AMD’s own financial recovery, its gains in market share against Intel, and Intel’s own subsequent hard times and layoffs.

“I think the best is that AMD continue to execute on a solid product roadmap. Unfortunately they are making performance comparisons to the competition’s previous generation products,” said Jim McGregor, an analyst at Tirias Research, in an email to VentureBeat. “So, we have to wait and see how the products will compare. However, I do expect them to be highly competitive especially the processors. Note that AMD only announced a new architecture for nenetworking, everything else is evolutionary but that’s not a bad thing when you are in a strong position and gaining market share.”

Laptops equipped with Ryzen AI PRO 300 Series processors are designed to tackle business’ toughest workloads, with the top-of-stack Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 offering up to 40% higher performance and up to 14% faster productivity performance compared to Intel’s Core Ultra