At its annual Advancing AI 2026 event, AMD has not only launched its next-gen Zen 6-powered AMD EPYC 'Venice' CPUs and AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs for large-scale AI, but it has also announced the new AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors for physical AI and robotics.
These new processors combine a 16-core Zen 5 CPU with a discrete-class integrated RDNA 3.5 iGPU with 40 Compute Units, similar to AMD's Strix Halo processor, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395. For physical AI and robotics, the 16-core CPU covers things like planning, orchestration, and agentic AI control, while the GPU handles perception, reasoning, and vision. Like other Ryzen AI chips, there's an onboard XDNA 2 NPU, which handles continuous vision and audio.
Popular Now: GTA Technical Director comments on GTA 6 running at 60 FPS on consolesThe Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processors power AMD's new Kria AI system-on modules (SOMs), so developers and designers can easily prototype, build, and deploy autonomous robots and physical AI systems. In fact, the AMD Kria AI Robotics Developer Platform is the first "open, turnkey integrated platform for autonomous robotics" thanks to its combination of CPU, GPU, NPU, and FPGA.
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AMD notes that when stacked up against the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, you've got up to 2.1x higher multithread CPU performance, 1.7x graphics performance, 3.5x higher token generation throughput, and 1.4x faster time-to-first-token (TTFT). That last one is important as it helps accelerate physical AI workloads. And it's supported by an open software stack for Linux with AMD ROCm and support for AI frameworks like PyTorch, ONNX and TensorFlow.
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And as processors designed for autonomous robots, they're built to survive and operate in harsh conditions including sub-zero temperatures of -40 to 105 degrees Celsius. Not only that, but AMD says that they can run 24/7 for 10 years in harsh environments. AMD has begun sampling its new Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series Processors to customers, with a full release expected in Q4 2026.
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