AMD Ryzen AI Halo Dev Kits Hit Retail With 128GB RAM And $3,999 Price Tag

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After debuting at CES earlier this year, AMD's powerful Ryzen AI Halo developer platform is a go for launch, with Micro Center posting a pair of listings priced at $3,999.99 each. The two available models are the same from a hardware standpoint, just that one comes with Windows 11 Pro installed and the other runs an unspecified Linux OS.

Yes, it's expensive for what is essentially a souped-up mini PC, but so is everything these days. The Ryzen AI Halo is not aimed at the typical consumer, and instead targets developers who could benefit from local AI development and inference workloads.

"Set up anywhere and run intensive AI workloads locally with AMD Ryzen AI Halo, featuring 128GB unified memory and support for up to 200B parameter models in a compact, power-efficient design, without constraints of cloud costs," AMD pitches.

AMD also makes direct comparisons to NVIDIA's competing DGX Spark that...

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