Did AMD win CES 2025? Maaaaybe?
We requested Donny Woligroski, senior technical advertising and marketing supervisor at AMD, to present us extra element on the blockbuster bulletins the corporate squeezed right into a 45-minute CES keynote: the upgraded Ryzen 9 9950X3D (and the way it impacts the persistent shortages of the opposite X3D components) and the associated 9955HX3D on laptops. Add to that AMD’s attention-grabbing 3D / AI powerhouse, the Ryzen AI Max or “Strix Halo.”
On this interview, I ask about how AMD is working to alleviate Ryzen 9000-series X3D shortages, how the Ryzen AI Max equates to Threadripper, and an entire lot extra!
However even with over 20 minutes of debate, we didn’t actually have time to debate AMD’s newest Ryzen AI 300 components or the brand new Ryzen 200 collection. We additionally needed to escape AMD’s announcement of latest Radeon 9070 graphics playing cards and its new Z2-series chips for gaming handhelds — which AMD didn’t even have time to say on the keynote, by the best way — to a separate interview with AMD chief gaming architect Frank Azor.
It felt like we spent nearly all of our time chasing down AMD executives simply to study extra particulars of what we are able to count on from AMD and its companions within the subsequent few weeks and months. (If you need much more, you may overview the transcript of a personal roundtable we held with AMD executives, the place we went over much more of the problems you care about.)
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