AI will be everywhere, and is for everyone

AMD’s Lisa Su shares AMD’s vision and new developments.

January 7, 2026

Jon Peddie

At CES 2026, Lisa Su framed AMD’s story as a journey into an AI‑hungry future. She started with exploding demand for compute, then unveiled the MI400 family and Helios racks, designed to push toward yotta‑scale training power. She paired that big‑iron vision with Greg Brockman’s tale of ChatGPT boosting a lab protocol seventyfold, arguing that such breakthroughs need exactly this kind of infrastructure. Then she zoomed down to everyday devices, showing Ryzen AI 400 and Ryzen AI Max laptops as well as the tiny Halo mini PC, all built to run hefty models locally. Fei‑Fei Li closed the loop, demoing

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