Tech analyst David Schor said on Twitter that the president of AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group confirmed during the AI Hardware Summit that they are already running their next-generation client Ryzen CPUs in the lab with Xilinx’s AI acceleration engine. Now that Ryzen is mentioned, we can point out that these are the upcoming Phoenix Point CPUs that were confirmed to feature an AI engine back in 2022 at AMD’s Financial Analyst Day.
It also confirms that AMD has officially built the Phoenix Point CPU to run in their labs, so it will go through an intense validation process before it goes into mass production in the coming year. AMD is expected to showcase its Phoenix Point CPUs for thin-and-light mobile PC platforms at CES 2023 and will take advantage of the brand new naming structure the company recently detailed. Phoenix Point APUs will be part of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series.
AMD confirmed the Phoenix Point APU lineup that will utilize Zen 4 and RDNA 3 cores. The new Phoenix Point APUs will support LPDDR5 and PCIe 5, with SKUs ranging from 35W to 45W. The lineup is also expected to launch in 2023, and most likely at CES in 2023. AMD also noted that notebook models may include memory technologies other than LPDDR5 and DDR5.
Based on early specs, it looks like the Phoenix Point Ryzen 7000 APU may still feature up to 8 cores and 16 threads, with the higher core count being unique to the Dragon series chips. However, the Phoenix Point APU will use the RDNA 3 graphics core, with a higher CU count, making it a lot more powerful than anything the competition might offer. The Phoenix Point APU will also be AMD’s first product to feature an AIE or AI engine that will accelerate AI-specific tasks.
