AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme just brought AI to handhelds — should the competition be worried?

A close-up of an AMD Ryzen APU held between two fingers, showing the chip’s reflective die surface and intricate packaging details.

AMD’s new Ryzen Z2 Extreme lineup has just been expanded with a game-changing twist: A built-in AI engine capable of 50 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of on-device AI compute.

That puts it well above Microsoft’s 40 TOPS Copilot+ PC requirement, and ahead of Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake platform and Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon X Elite.