AMD has provided an early look at its upcoming Ryzen Artificial Intelligence 400 series for desktop, following a press briefing that confirmed the new branding for next generation socketed APUs. The chips are based on 4 nm ‘Gorgon Point’ monolithic silicon, which appears to be transitioning from its mobile platform origins to fully fledged desktop implementations. While official details remain limited, the company is positioning the Ryzen Artificial Intelligence 400 lineup as the successor to its traditional desktop APU families.
The clearest hint so far surfaced during Dr. Lisa Su’s presentation at Lenovo Tech World, where a background slide highlighted three major next generation product families: EPYC, Instinct accelerators, and a Ryzen Artificial Intelligence PRO 400 APU. The Ryzen Artificial Intelligence PRO 400 was shown in a desktop socketed layout on the familiar AM5 platform, strongly indicating that these processors are designed for standard desktop motherboards rather than mobile or embedded sockets. This visual confirmation aligns with earlier reports that AMD is retiring its past desktop APU naming such as Ryzen 8000G in favor of the new Artificial Intelligence focused series.
Up until the start of this year, many industry observers predicted an introduction of Ryzen 9000G APU products, armed with XDNA 2 NPUs, at the important January trade event. Instead, AMD’s emerging roadmap suggests that the company is concentrating its desktop strategy around Ryzen Artificial Intelligence 400 branded parts that integrate dedicated Artificial Intelligence acceleration. Going further into 2026, Team Red is expected to announce various Ryzen Artificial Intelligence 400 desktop SKUs, featuring Zen 5 and Zen 5c core configurations alongside RDNA 3.5 based integrated GPUs, targeting a broad range of desktop workloads that combine general compute, graphics, and on chip Artificial Intelligence processing.
