Ryzen Phoenix processors will come with Xilinx AI unit

AMD seems to have confirmed that Ryzen Phoenix processors with Xilinx’s AI unit will be released and are currently being evaluated in the company’s labs.

In a tweet by David Schor It is said that the director of AMD’s embedded and adaptive computing department confirmed during the AI ​​Hardware Summit that Ryzen’s new generation processors in Red Team’s laboratories use the Xilinx artificial intelligence accelerator. Since Ryzen is mentioned, we can assume that they mean Phoenix Point chips, which by the way were previously announced to have an artificial intelligence engine.

At the same time, this shows that AMD has officially produced Phoenix processors and is currently evaluating them before they enter the mass production process. The aforementioned chips for thin and light laptops are expected to be introduced at CES 2023, and they happen to have new naming and manufacturing technology.

The Red team has confirmed that Phoenix Point’s APU lineup uses Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures. These APUs also support LPDDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.0 and are offered in 35-45W models. Based on the initial specs, it looks like this family will still have up to 8 cores and 16 threads, while the Dragon Range series will provide more cores.

Ryzen Phoenix processors with Xilinx AI unit

However, Phoenix Point will benefit from more GPUs with the newer RDNA 3 architecture, which we expect will greatly increase performance. The new APUs are also AMD’s first with an AIE, or AI Engine, that accelerates tasks involving artificial intelligence.

Of course, this engine was developed by Xilinx, which was bought by AMD in 2020 for $35 billion. AIE is a competitor of VPU or Intel’s Versatile Processing Unit, which is responsible for artificial intelligence in the 13th generation of Raptor Lake, but will be fully implemented in the 14th generation of Meteor Lake.