AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap
A year ago the Ryzen AI Halo, AMD's tiny new AI workstation, would have offered devs and machine learning enthusiasts an Nvidia DGX Spark-like experience at a fraction of the cost.
Unfortunately for AMD, time and the ongoing memory shortage, which both AMD itself and Nvidia are partially responsible for, hasn't been kind to the consumer electronics industry.
Launching at a hair under $4,000, the AI Halo is still cheaper than the Spark at its new MSRP of $4,699, but is now a much tougher sell than when you could get the same hardware for as little as $2,000.
That's right. The 128 GB AI Halo is based on year-old technology. Its main selling point, and what AMD has spent the past several months getting right, is the packaging. Much like with the Spark, you're not just buying the machine but all the software and documentation you need to...
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