AMD’s Ryzen CPU announcements this year fall firmly into the latter camp—these are all gently tweaked variants of chips that launched in 2024 and 2025.

While Intel had an early lead with the MSI Claw 8 AI+’s Arc 140V iiGPU performance, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X took the lead back for AMD with the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme which was a major win for the Ryzen Z2 series as a whole. However, the Intel G3 could change things back in Intel’s favor.

AMD's refreshed Ryzen 7 9850X3D is up to 27% faster than Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K: up to 48% faster in Counter-Strike 2, and 32% faster in Cyberpunk 2077.

Dr. Su will deliver a keynote speech from the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian on Monday, January 5 at 9:30PM ET (6:30PM PT). You can watch the event live on the CES YouTube channel (we've embedded the livestream below).

The arrival of CES always marks a definitive end to the holidays—the big annual trade show is where we get our first hints of what to expect from 2026. Some of it will be weird, some of it will be wild, and some of it could be wonderful.

Most chips you’ll see in laptops will max out with the Ryzen AI 7 450, an 8-core CPU with a 5.1GHz clock speed and 24MB cache with only a 50 TOPS NPU. Overall, it’s a subdued update to one of AMD’s most prevalent CPUs.

Helios will go head-to-head with Nvidia’s own NVL systems, matching its latest NVL72’s 72 Rubin GPUs with 72 of AMD’s MI455X chips. It’s another sign that AMD is working to move further in on Nvidia’s turf in the AI data center market.

At CES 2026, Asus unveils the latest Asus Zephyrus G14, famously powered by AMD — until now. I’m terribly intrigued, and worried.

HP revealed its new EliteBook X 14 family of laptops at CES 2026, and HP lets you choose from a wide range of options — including your choice of silicon.

AMD's Ryzen AI 400 chips claim substantial performance improvements over older Intel laptop processors in benchmarks like content creation, but otherwise AMD seems happy to offer more modest improvements.

ASUS reveals new ROG Zephyrus G16 and G14 gaming laptops: powered by Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 GPUs.