AMD’s Consumer Roadmap 2026 is underwhelming
4nm will have a hard time competing with Intel 18A and TSMC 3nm.
Last week, AMD presented its AI, data center, and consumer plans for the next few years to financial and industry analysts. Despite the huge success in the data center market, partial success in AI, and a solid roadmap ahead, I wanted to share a shortcoming on the consumer roadmap, especially concerning 2026.
Zotac shows its new ZONE handheld prototype at CES 2025
AMD Strix Point APU, more RAM and storage, in a similar package
In addition to the full lineup of Geforce RTX 50 series graphics cards, Zotac's new ZONE gaming handheld prototype was also spotted at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas. Zotac decided to update the console with AMD Strix Point APU, as well as give it 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and 1TB of storage.
AMD and ASUS patch inter-core latency issues in Strix Point APUs
New BIOS Update
ASUS and AMD have announced a solution to the longstanding issue of inter-core latency in the new Strix Point APUs.
Asus confirms AMD Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point launch
Coming on July 15th
Asus has now officially confirmed that the AMD Ryzen AI 300 will launch to the market on July 15th, with the company being one of the first OEMs to have laptops on the market.
AMD also teases next-gen Ryzen AI Strix Point and XDNA 2
Shipping in 2024
In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8040 series Hawk Point mobile processors, AMD has teased its XDNA 2 NPU and Strix Point at the Advancing AI event, promising over 3x the generative AI NPU performance uplift.