AMD Ryzen AI Halo First Look: Giant Local AI Power in a Pint-Sized Box

AMD Ryzen AI Halo First Look: Giant Local AI Power in a Pint-Sized Box

I’ve received one of AMD’s first official AI developer boxes for testing, and it’s an impressive piece of AI hardware with a super-simple setup.

AMD Unveils Ryzen AI Developer Platform to Rival Nvidia

AMD's Ryzen AI Developer Platform offers open-source tools, Linux compatibility, and AI-first workflows, challenging Nvidia's dominance. (Read More)

AMD Ryzen AI Halo review: AMD builds a DGX Spark of its own

Nvidia's DGX Spark and its GB10 SoC have set the template for what a purpose-built local AI developer sandbox should be. The combination of a standardized hardware platform with robust first-party software support and thorough documentation lets those curious about local AI get up and running faster than buying a bare-metal box and building everything up from scratch, especially in the rapidly evolving AI space. AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, aka Stri…

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Review: A Dual-OS, 200B-Parameter Desktop Takes On the DGX Spark

AMD silicon arguably got here first: Strix Halo mini PCs and laptops were shipping with 128GB of unified memory well before NVIDIA entered the picture. But the local-AI desktop as a category is one NVIDIA effectively created when it put a Grace Blackwell superchip in a one-liter box and called it DGX Spark. The pitch was simple: a developer-class machine with enough unified memory to hold capable models, sitting on a desk instead of metered in t…