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iBUYPOWER has announced the Pro AMD AI Halo, a mini workstation PC built around AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor. The company positions it as a compact machine for creative, engineering and data science work, capable of running local AI inference and rendering without third-party cloud services. It goes on sale in Q4 2026 starting at $3,999, while supplies last.
The Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 pairs 16 Zen 5 cores with integrated Radeon 8065S graphics on the RDNA 3.5 architecture, 40 compute units, 128 GB of unified memory and a neural processing unit rated at 55 TOPS (trillions of operations per second, a rough measure of AI throughput). AMD also touts enterprise-grade security features and faster operating system and driver deployment on the chip.
The box itself measures 70x198x200 mm and ships with Windows 11 Pro. Storage is configurable up to 8 TB across three M.2 slots, and connectivity includes Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, two 10 Gb Ethernet ports and two 40 Gbps USB4 ports, plus DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.1 outputs.