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A leaked slide from a Microsoft event appears to reveal the names of two unreleased processor families: AMD's Ryzen AI 500 lineup, possibly based on the Zen 6 architecture, and Intel's Core Ultra 4 range, built on the Nova Lake architecture. The slide comes from Microsoft's Hybrid Intelligence roadmap for next-generation Windows PCs, which lays out four device tiers spanning budget 8GB laptops to machines powered by Nvidia's GB300 platform.
The roadmap also mentions Intel's upcoming Crescent Island GPU, officially branded as the Intel GPU D-Series. It is listed in Tier 3, aimed at advanced users building and running large models locally, and is based on the Xe3P architecture with up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, 1.5TB/s of bandwidth and 1.3 petaflops of FP8 compute, which Microsoft says is enough to handle models with up to 300 billion parameters on a single card.
Notably, Microsoft has split its product tiers by total system memory rather than raw processing power. Tier 0 covers 8GB budget laptops running basic local tasks, while Tier 1 spans 16GB, 32GB and 64GB Copilot+ certified machines paired with Intel Core Ultra Series 3/4, AMD Ryzen AI 400/500 and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus/X Elite/Extreme chips. The 64GB devices, which also include AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 400, Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X and an unnamed Intel Core Ultra Next chip, appear to be the starting point for meaningful local AI processing.
Because the slide is leaked rather than officially confirmed, the details, including the Zen 6 basis for Ryzen AI 500, should be treated as provisional until Microsoft or the chipmakers say more.