AMD CES 2025 Keynote live blog: As it happened

Good morning people. We’re lining up outside the South Seas Ballroom in Mandalay Bay, awaiting the start of AMD’s CES 2025 keynote, and it’ll be packed for at least 45 minutes to an hour. I’ll be here to bring you the latest news as it breaks, as well as my thoughts on what’s being announced.

I’ll keep you posted as soon as I’m in my seat, so stay tuned!

We’re still five minutes away from the start of AMD’s press conference, so it’s time to settle down.

AMD Senior VP Jack Huynh now takes the stage, no Lisa Su this time.

The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D are first at the top.

Not to brag or anything…

Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D will be released in March 2025.

AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D is coming to laptops, along with a few non-X3D HX chips (I missed the model names of the other two, I’ll grab those in a moment).

AMD’s SVP of Client Business Rahul Tikoo is now on stage to talk about AI PCs.

New Ryzen AI 300 chips, aimed at the mid-range user with Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen 5 340.

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Now we move on to the new Ryzen AI Max series, which are workstation CPUs with up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, which is an awful lot for an integrated GPU. Up to 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU and up to 256 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Okay, so we’re dealing with enterprise products, namely AMD Epyc and AMD Instinct data center CPU and GPUs.

We also had some discussion about AMD Ryzen AI 300 Pro.

I have no idea what TCO means, but Shell says AMD Ryzen CPUs offer the best, so there’s that.

Now executives at PC makers are singing AMD’s praises, including HP, Lenovo and Asus.

So Dell is now on stage with AMD and talking about Dell’s first professional PCs and laptops with AMD chips. Oh, and Dell is completely rebranding its entire product portfolio, but that’s for another news story.

Everyone keeps talking about the ‘AI revolution’, but honestly, I haven’t seen anything from AI PCs that is truly revolutionary yet. I’m sure it will come sometime in the future, but the future isn’t here yet.

Okay, so the press conference has ended and there was no discussion about AMD Radeon graphics cards, as we expected, but we know they’re coming, so there may be more to come on that in the coming days.

But for now, the big news is the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D chips coming in March, as well as new powerful mobile ships for enthusiasts, gamers and business users alike.

There’s more to come from me today, but for now we have to leave the ballroom, so stay tuned for more information here at CES 2025.