AMD Is Challenging Nvidia With The ‘World’s Fastest PC Processors,’ And New AI Chips

The MI325X, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ‘s most recent AI processor, was presented at the Computex technology trade event in Taipei.

AMD revealed at the Computex trade expo that it has big hopes for AI technologies going forward. AMD unveiled the MI350 series, scheduled for availability in 2025, alongside the MI325X. When compared to the MI300 series, the MI350 chip is expected to perform 35 times better in inference. AMD intends to introduce the MI400 series in 2026, built around a revolutionary architecture known as “Next.”

The rivalry between Nvidia and AMD is intensifying. Currently, Nvidia controls around 80% of the market for AI semiconductors..AMD CEO Lisa Su highlighted the significance of AI for the company, stating, “AI is our number one priority, and we’re at the beginning of an incredibly exciting time for the industry as AI transforms virtually every business, improves our quality of life, and reshapes every part of the computing market.”

To compete with Nvidia, AMD intends to follow Nvidia’s approach in launching new AI chips yearly, as stated by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series, which will take on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X and Intel’s Lunar Lake, is another move into the AI laptop market. Furthermore, AMD and Microsoft are working together to integrate these CPUs into laptops that come with the AI chatbot Copilot installed.

During the event, AMD unveiled more innovations, including the next-generation Zen 5 CPU architecture and XDNA 2 GPU NPU architecture. These will power the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors for gaming PCs and the third-generation Ryzen AI processors for ultrabooks. According to AMD, these processors will support up to 50 trillion operations per second (TOPs), facilitating advanced on-device AI experiences such as recall and live captioning.

The Ryzen AI 300 series boasts the new XDNA 2 neural processing unit (NPU) capable of up to 50 TOPs of performance, along with a 12-core central processing unit (CPU) and a new graphics processing unit (GPU) based on RDNA 3.5 architecture, featuring up to 16 compute units on the flagship AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

According to Lisa Su, the “world’s fastest consumer PC processors” for gaming and content creation will be incorporated into the new Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. Releases in July are planned for the Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000 series and the 5th generation EPYC chips, which will all be based on the most recent “Zen 5” architecture.