AMD is widening its Strix Halo lineup. At CES 2026, the company announced two new Ryzen AI Max+ APUs, aimed at users who want strong AI and graphics performance without stepping up to a discrete GPU.

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo is built with Ryzen AI Max Plus series processors and is “capable of running up to 200 billion parameter models locally,” AMD says. It’s “planned for introduction” in the second quarter of 2026,

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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered new details that are helping them decipher the mystery of how giant radio-emitting structures are formed at the center of a cluster of galaxies.