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AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is nominally a mobile processor that combines discrete-level integrated graphics, an NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance, and a unified memory architecture that allows up to 96GB of RAM to be allocated to the GPU (in a system with 128GB of memory).
But at this point I feel like we've seen the chip used more for mini desktop computers than laptops. The latest addition? The upcoming PELADN YO1.
PELADN is a Chinese brand that sells a number of mini PCs globally. The company's Amazon store page shows entry-level models priced as low as $120 as well as higher-priced systems with up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor.
Over the weekend the company posted a teaser for the upcoming YO1 mini PC that shows the design and some key specs, including a Ryzen AI 9 Max+ 395 processor with 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 32 threads, Radeon 8060 graphics with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units, and a Ryzen AI NPU.
The system also supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5x onboard memory with 256GB/s bandwidth for up to 126 TOPS of total AI processing power.
Because that's the thing about these chips – while you can theoretically use them for gaming, they're really designed for AI and most of the systems we've seen that feature a Ryzen AI 9 Max+ 395 processor are expensive enough that gamers might be better off just buying a gaming laptop with a recent discrete GPU.
The GMK Evo-X2, for example, sells for $1499 and up. And while The Framework Desktop starts at $1099 for an entry-level configuration with a Ryzen AI Max 385 processor, you'll have to pay $1599 or more to get one with the higher-performance Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip. And rumor has it that Asus is working on an NUC (or NUC-like) mini PC with the same processor, but odds are that it will cost at least as much as the competition, if not more.
PELADN hasn't announced how much the YO1 mini PC will cost yet, or when it will be available for purchase.
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