The Ryzen 7000 ‘Phoenix’ processors appear to feature technology to accelerate AI. The Phoenix processors, designed for the notebook segment, are going to have a dedicated segment for AI, which has just been confirmed by AMD itself.
AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Phoenix’ will have Xilinx AI acceleration
AMD’s processors, the Ryzen 7000 APU, called Phoenix, are going to feature a dedicated artificial intelligence segment. This engine is owned by Xilinx and the first samples are already running in AMD’s labs.
David Schor, President of AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, confirmed during the AI Hardware Summit that they are already running their next-generation Ryzen CPUs in their labs and have Xilinx’s AI acceleration engine. This has been made possible by AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx, which became official earlier this year 2022.
Some interesting updates: Victor Peng says Ryzen client chips with Xilinx’s AI Engine are back from the fab and in the lab. #Ryzen #Xilinx
– David Schor (@david_schor) September 16, 2022
AMD is expected to unveil Ryzen 7000 ‘Phoenix’ processors for the notebook segment at CES 2023, which is going to be held in January, among many other new features. It’s possible that AMD will give us a lot more details about how AI acceleration is going to work in its upcoming chips.
The new APU ‘Phoenix’ will benefit from Zen 4 cores and RDNA 3 integrated graphics. DDR5/LPDDR5 memory support as well as PCIe 5.0 interface support. These processors are going to feature a variable TDP between 35W and 45W.
The most powerful chip in its class is going to have about 8 cores and 16 threads. The processors with more cores will be reserved for another series, the ‘Dragon Range’, which will also have higher TDP values.