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On May 21, 2026, AMD announced the commercial availability of the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by the new Ryzen AI Max 400 Series processors. This platform is specifically designed to enable "agentic computing" and local AI inference at scale, featuring an NPU capable of 55 TOPS. The flagship Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 is positioned as the industry's first x86 CPU capable of handling large language models (LLMs) with over 300 billion parameters locally, supported by a significant memory increase to 192GB, of which 160GB can be allocated as VRAM. This launch directly targets the high--end AI developer market, competing with dedicated workstation solutions for local AI development.