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Get ready, because next year is shaping up to be the first year of the AI PC! Chipmakers are racing to be the ones powering it and this is a race you won’t want to miss. AMD is already making huge moves, launching its Ryzen 8040 series of mobile CPUs alongside new Instinct hardware for the datacenter. AMD is so excited about this development that it revealed all the details in a very special episode of The Full Nerd podcast.
First up: Jason Banta, AMD’s client CPU chief, who had a conversation with Adam Patrick Murray and shared insights into the Ryzen 8000 series of mobile chips. These chips will enhance local chatbot and AI-powered features. If that doesn’t excite you already then you must know about the release of the Ryzen AI Software, which “quantizes” a ChatGPT-esque large language model AI into a format that can be used on a Ryzen CPU. Think of it like image compression for AI — it’s pretty cool and a problem that you probably didn’t even know could be solved!
Then we have David McAfee, corporate vice president of client channel, who joins Adam to discuss Threadripper, especially the Threadripper 7000 — back on client PCs. Find out why Threadripper is so important and how AMD plans to make it a game-changer.
Mahesh Balasubramanian, director of product marketing at AMD, also joins in to talk about enterprise Instinct platform and APUs, alongside Patrick Kennedy, from Serve The Home. They explain how enterprise APUs could mean the most exciting developments for enterprise AI. Adam, Patrick, and of course, myself then wrap it all up.
And so the parting thought is– this is just the beginning for AI and you don’t want to miss a second of it!
Author: Mark Hachman, Senior Editor
As PCWorld’s senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.