AMD has today introduced two series of CPUs and APUs consisting of the AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 for laptops and the AMD Ryzen 8000 APU which both come with built-in artificial intelligence chips.
AMD introduced the XNDA engine to power this built-in AI chip that can be leveraged to power various built-in artificial intelligence features directly from the laptop without having to rely on server machine processing power and even a fast internet connection.
The AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 and Ryzen Pro 8040 APU and CPU series will be used by commercial class laptops, especially for companies that still want to use artificial intelligence technology to facilitate their tasks such as writing reports, creating slides and various charts, but do not want that information to leak into the web arena due to machine learning.
AMD also says that their Ryzen Pro 8040 CPU chip comes with a higher NPU processing capability of 16 TOPS compared to Intel Meteor Lake with only 11 TOPS. When combined with CPU processing power, the Ryzen Pro chip comes in at 36 TOPS of processing power, while Intel's offering has 34 TOPS of processing power.
Even so, these two processing chips, which are expected to power the Windows 11 operating system with built-in AI Copilot features still do not reach the minimum processing power requirement of 45 TOPS to power Copilot locally, but it is expected that the processing chips will come from both- these two companies (Strix Point and Lunar Lake) will exceed the required value.
So far, it has been reported that Lenovo and HP will be among the two laptop makers that will use this AMD Ryzen Pro 8040 processing chip, but for now it is not known when these laptops will be launched.