AMD at the 2026 International CES showed off its Ryzen AI Halo box, which is a first-party compact desktop based on AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" processors. It turns out that this product isn't being touted as just a consumer desktop, but rather a fully-fledged AI development platform rivaling NVIDIA's DGX Spark. While not exactly competing with the DGX Spark in compute power, the box is meant for development of consumer AI applications.

The box packs a full-featured Ryzen AI Max 395+ with a 16-core/32-thread "Zen 5" CPU, a large iGPU powered by the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture, featuring 40 compute units, and a Microsoft Copilot+ ready NPU with 50 TOPS, held together with 32-64 GB of LPDDR5X memory, support for Windows 11 and Linux, and pre-loaded AI models that are optimized for the hardware of this box. AMD innovated a cooling solution for the "Strix Halo" SoC featuring a baseplate, a network of direct-touch flat heatpipes, an aluminium channel heatsink, and two lateral airflow blowers. AMD says that the Ryzen AI Halo AI developer platform will be available from Q2 2026.