The compact system will ship with AMD's top Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 chip and was shown at AI Dev Day in San Francisco.
AMD positions it as an AI developer platform with ROCm support, day-one model compatibility and optimisation for tools including LM Studio, ComfyUI and VS Code.
The range supports up to 16 cores, 40 compute units and 128GB LPDDR5X memory, with expected pricing around $2,000-$3,000, below Nvidia's $4,699 DGX Spark.
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