Interview: AMD dives deep into its overhauled 2025 Ryzen lineup [Video]

Did AMD win CES 2025? Maaaaybe?

We asked Donny Woligroski, senior technical marketing manager at AMD, to give us more detail on the blockbuster announcements the company squeezed into a 45-minute CES keynote: the upgraded Ryzen 9 9950X3D (and how it affects the persistent shortages of the other X3D parts) and the related 9955HX3D on laptops. Add to that AMD’s interesting 3D / AI powerhouse, the Ryzen AI Max or “Strix Halo.”

In this interview, I ask about how AMD is working to alleviate Ryzen 9000-series X3D shortages, how the Ryzen AI Max equates to Threadripper, and a whole lot more!

But even with over 20 minutes of discussion, we didn’t really have time to discuss AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 300 parts or the new Ryzen 200 series. We also had to break out AMD’s announcement of new Radeon 9070 graphics cards and its new Z2-series chips for gaming handhelds— which AMD didn’t even have time to mention at the …