AMD at IFA 2026: A new era of personal and agentic AI
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AMD is pushing a stack that assumes agents and local models are default client workloads — from new chips to Project Zenith to a 96-core Threadripper “Halo Station.” If you’re building agentic apps, start designing for a world where serious users expect meaningful offline capability and multi-device orchestration, not cloud-only assistants.
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