AMD and Lenovo show Ryzen AI 400 for socket AM5
Implicitly, AMD announced new APUs for socket AM5 on two occasions at CES – but without mentioning them or providing details.
Screenshot from Lenovo's CES event: The previously unknown Ryzen AI Pro 400 for AM5 appeared on screen without comment.
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At both AMD's own presentation of the new Ryzen AI 400 APUs – some of which are just renamed 300 models from the previous year – and at Lenovo's "Tech World" event during CES, there was a previously little-noticed novelty: Processors with integrated graphics and AI units, which were previously only available for soldering, will also be released for socket AM5.
On a slide from AMD's own keynote, a corresponding processor was depicted without comment and small. When AMD's CEO appeared at Lenovo's Tech World days later, the entire portfolio of the company's AI accelerators appeared on the screen, including a processor clearly labeled "Ryzen AI Pro 400 Series" with the characteristic heatsink of AM5 CPUs. The moment is captured in the title image of this report. At both events, these variants were not explicitly mentioned in the presentation, nor were there any further details regarding specifications, price, and market launch of the AM5 AIs.
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The new processors are not only interesting for local AI acceleration, but also because they bring larger and faster internal graphics units than the Ryzen 8000G series with Zen 4 cores. This currently represents the only components for socket AM5 with graphics units. A series like 9000G with Zen 5 cores and stronger graphics had always been expected – this is likely settled with the Ryzen AI Pro 400 for AM5.
So far, only one new Ryzen for AM5 in 2026
Explicitly, AMD only announced one new processor for socket AM5 at CES, the Ryzen 9850X3D, which is only clocked slightly higher than the popular 9800X3D. However, rumors have been circulating about a supposed "9950X3D2", where both compute dies are equipped with X3D stacked cache. The current 9950X3D only has the fast cache on one of these dies, meaning eight cores with the cache and eight cores without, which can clock slightly higher.
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AMD might not present such a processor, or even Ryzen with more than 16 cores, until autumn 2026. Then Intel's Nova Lake is expected to appear, presumably as "Core Ultra 300". According to unconfirmed reports, it will have up to 56 cores on two compute dies, with a single chiplet featuring up to 16 performance cores and a total of 144 MByte cache.
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