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# AMD Launches Project Zenith on Ryzen AI Halo

November 11, 2026 at 05:25 PM

> AMD debuts the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 mini PC, a developer platform supporting 300B parameter models with up to 192GB of LPDDR5X memory.

AMD has launched Microsoft's Project Zenith on its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor. This mini PC features 16 Zen 5 cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, and an XDNA 2 NPU delivering 55 TOPS for advanced AI workloads.

The platform supports 192GB of LPDDR5X memory with 273 GB/s bandwidth, allowing 160GB for the GPU to run models with 300 billion parameters. It includes a preconfigured Windows 11 environment with Visual Studio Code, Git, Python, .NET, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Micro Center lists the 192GB Linux model at $7,299.99, while the 128GB version costs $3,999.99. Current Windows owners can use the open-source Windows Developer Config project to replicate the Zenith environment, which also supports AMD's ROCm and PyTorch playbooks.



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