AMD CEO Lisa Su teases flagship mobile Strix Halo APU is coming to the desktop

AMD has been doing a truly amazing job in the APU market, with its new Strix Point and more so its flagship Strix Halo APUs dominating the laptop and handheld chip market... but it looks like the powerhouse Strix Halo APU is coming to the desktop.

In a recent interview with ASUS China General Manager Tony Yu and AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tony requested Lisa to make its Strix Halo APU transition to the desktop as well, with Lisa replying "yes, yes, of course!". AMD makes its Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" and "Strix Halo" APU processors for mobile platforms on the FP11 socket, with the AM5 socket housing desktop processors.

FP11 processors are larger than AM5 processors, but we've seen companies like Minisforum using its BD770i and BD790i which allowed a Ryzen 7 7745HX and 7945HX on a custom motherboard that could be used as a regular desktop. It looks like AMD is cooking up version of its Strix Halo APU for the desktop, and that is some exciting news.

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AMD could end up releasing something like Framework's recently announced modular Desktop PC packing the flagship Strix Halo APU with 16 cores and 32 threads, up to 128GB of RAM, and a cost of $1999. If we had an all-AMD mini desktop PC launched with a 16C/32T Zen 5-based CPU, and beefy 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU that is more than capable of playing games without needing a discrete GPU... it would be a huge deal.

Users could upgrade the RAM and SSD inside of these purported Strix Halo APU-powered desktop variants, so with enough CPU and GPU grunt, you could configure up to 128GB of RAM and 4TB+ of Gen4 SSD storage for quite the powerhouse system that won't need much cooling, and won't use much power... all without a discrete graphics card inside, able to play games at 1080p 120FPS+ or even up to 4K 60FPS+ with FSR enabled in certain games.

AMD doing an in-house version would be fantastic to see, but we'll see OEMs like ASUS, Acer, HP, Dell, etc making their own Strix Halo APU-powered mini desktop PC systems. That will also be awesome to see, different designs, shapes, and sizes. I'm sure we'll get tricked-out versions with RGB lighting, more ports and functions, built-in screens, and more.

Exciting times for mini desktop PCs powered by a Strix Halo APU... I've got room on my desk waiting for one.