Purchase of Xilinx Company etc they pointed to the red giant’s attempt to dive into AI implementation. This was confirmed after he saw that future Ryzen processors codenamed Phoenix include Xilinx AI acceleration engines which are tested in the laboratory.

The information comes from a tweet posted by technology analyst David Schor, in which he states that Victor Peng, president of AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, told him that they are already using next-generation Ryzen processors in their labs and that these have an AI acceleration engine from Xilinx. Given the explicit mention of Ryzen, everything points to the fact that the artificial intelligence engine will eventually make its way to Phoenix, the future generation of APUs (processors with integrated powerful graphics accelerators).

Another detail that the leak or statement clarified is that APU Phoenix still in lab testsso they’re still waiting for validation before moving on to mass production, which is expected to start in 2023. The official unveiling should take place at CES 2023 and will use the new naming structure that the company recently explained.

Phoenix is ​​expected to make a significant leap in quality with usage Zen 4 processor architecture and RDNA 3 graphics technologythe same one that uses Radeon RX 7000 dedicated graphics. Some models could increase power consumption from 35 to 45 watts, and at the level of technologies and interfaces, it would be very surprising if it did not support LPDDR5, DDR5 and PCIe 5. Adding to all this is the now more than possible inclusion of an AI acceleration engine from Xilinx.

We remember that Xilinx was acquired by AMD in 2020 in exchange for $35,000 million. The AI ​​acceleration technology that the Phoenix APUs will incorporate should compete with Intel’s Versatile Processing Unit (VPU), which is oriented towards the same purpose and aims to be launched in the Raptor Lake generation with the aim of fully implementing it in Mateor Lake. (fourteenth generation).