Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs are the first AI PC processors built on the new Intel 18A process, and made in the USA.

You can get a AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Processor from Amazon of for $389.99 (a savings of $109.01) if you hurry. That’s a significant amount of savings compared to its normal price of $499.00, and a total savings of 22%.

After the modest success of its first generation of Arm-based Snapdragon X processors, as part of Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PC ecosystem, Qualcomm continued to improve the architecture by launching the Snapdragon X2 Elite last September. And at this year's CES event, it's back again, this time with the more affordable X2 Plus range.

AMD also is updating its workstation-level Ryzen AI Max+ mobile processors with two new models: the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392 and the eight-core Ryzen AI Max+ 388. They’re notable for a system-on-chip designs that employs a bank of shared memory that can be allocated ad-hoc between the main system memory and graphics.

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Helios will go head-to-head with Nvidia’s own NVL systems, matching its latest NVL72’s 72 Rubin GPUs with 72 of AMD’s MI455X chips. It’s another sign that AMD is working to move further in on Nvidia’s turf in the AI data center market.