AMD promised eventual “mobile gaming dominance” back in 2022, and it feels like we’re getting closer every day. Today, the company is announcing not one, not two, but three different families of chips designed to take it there, including final confirmation of the long-rumored “Strix Halo” and “Fire Range” laptop chips.

AMD kicks of CES 2025 with a bang: its Ryzen AI Max processor combines discrete-level graphics with powerful AI, all surrounding a state-of-the-art Zen 5 CPU.

The enthusiast laptop market will soon be greeted by AMD's flagship APUs codenamed "Strix Halo" under the Ryzen AI MAX Pro lineup. Likely to arrive at CES, these APUs reportedly serve as a one-stop solution for workstation laptops uniting Zen 5 cores with a powerful RDNA 3.5 iGPU (Integrated GPU) on a single chip.

AMD is targeting both low-end and high-end AI PCs at CES 2025. The company unveiled a new family of Ryzen AI Max chips meant for "halo" Copilot+ AI PCs, which will sit above existing Ryzen AI 9 systems.

AMD claims the Ryzen 9000 CPUs are up to 8% faster than the previous Ryzen 9 7950X3D, with improvements in games like Black Myth W.

AMD has already claimed the top slot for gaming CPUs, but the Ryzen 9 9950X3D looks to extend that lead further. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox