AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 8000 CPUs With Improved AI Performance

The Ryzen 8000 Pro chips for desktops and mobile devices are launching today. AMD promises improved AI performance for business users thanks to a newly added neural processing unit (NPU). The company directly targets Intel with this launch, as business users have always heavily favored Intel's processors. However, AMD says its solution is superior in performance and efficiency, even when compared with Intel's newest Meteor Lake chips.

The company is launching two new chip families today: the Ryzen 8000 Pro for desktops and the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for mobile users. AMD has added its NPU to both chip families (for the high-end chips), which it says will give business users better on-device AI performance. This is apparently a crucial new requirement for this class of machines, as companies don't want to use the cloud for AI due to privacy concerns. Using AI in this scenario includes ...