Well, it's finally here. We've been crossing our fingers for a long, long time waiting for AMD Strix Halo, and now the waiting's over.
As one of its many rabbit hat-pulls for CES 2025, AMD's just announced the halo (ie, top) end of its Strix Point mobile processors, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics, and an NPU.
These new «halo» processors are the Ryzen AI Max 385, AI Max 390, and AI Max+ 395. (Oh, and the AI Max 380, but that's a Pro-only, ie, business-focused, processor.) These will be available Q1-Q2 2025.
We've suspected a Strix Halo launch for a while now, and we'd heard about its AI Max naming and possible specs since September last year.
As it turns out, those previously rumoured specs were almost entirely accurate. The only difference is that now we know the Ryzen AI Max 390 will have just 32 CUs, not 40 as the previous rumour had it.