AMD punts Ryzen AI 400 to business desktops and laptops
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By Mark Hachman
Published on March 2, 2026.
AMD has released its new AMD-branded Zen AI Pro 400 (R-AI 400) chip, a desktop processor that will be offered as a low-power, efficient desktop or mini PC. However, the company is marketing both the desktop and mobile versions of these chips under its Pro brand for businesses, in an attempt to make them more accessible to consumers. The company's performance was praised for its performance in both consumers and corporations, but these chips are now being marketed as powerful solutions for local LLMs. The chips use a compact version of the same core (Zen5c), typically manufactured in a finer 3nm process with a smaller die area, and include an NPU with 50 TOPS, qualifying them for Copilot+ status on desktop PCs. AMD also launched the AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700, an AI-optimized GPU with 32GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit memory bus, and the AMD AMD's new mobile AMD AM5 platform, supporting DDR5 memory modules of up to 8,533 megatransfers/s. Despite this, gamers still have AMD’s superb desktop chips and gaming options. The AMD expects 20 percent faster single-core performance and 30 percent faster multithreaded performance in Cinebench 2026.
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