CES 2025 is almost upon us and one of the most exciting keynote speeches of the show is AMD’s. How will it build on the success of its Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs? How will it combat Nvidia’s impending RTX 5000 generation? Will RDNA4 excite, despite not offering a flagship card?
If you want to watch the keynote speech live to get the first news on what AMD’s plans are for 2025, here’s how.
AMD’s keynote is set to take place this morning, a day before CES officially starts, at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET on January 6. You can watch it live on the AMD YouTube channel directly, or by using the embedded video link above.
There will be plenty of third-party streams too, but if you want to watch without additional commentary or critique, then this is the most straightforward way.
AMD had a strong close to 2024, so it’ll be looking to leap into the new year with its best foot forward. We’ve been hearing rumors about its plans since last fFall, when leakers suggested AMD would come to CES 2025 with a flurry of new consumer products, including CPUs, graphics cards, and new handheld chips for future gaming devices.
AMD’s blurb for the event invites viewers to, “Join AMD executives, alongside partners and customers, to hear how AMD is expanding its leadership across PCs and gaming, highlighting the breadth of the company’s high-performance computing and AI product portfolio.”
That doesn’t give us much to go on, but it would line up with the expectations that AMD will debut its RDNA4 generation of graphics cards, with the potential to lean into performance-per-watt improvements, rather than pushing the envelope at the top end of the spectrum. It’s possible that we’ll also see the higher-end Ryzen 9000 X3D CPU variants, like the rumored 9950X3D.
We will probably also see some new APUs from AMD. Its onboard graphics, combined with new, efficient CPU cores, have the potential to help it continue its dominance in the portable gaming space in new Z2-generation APUs. With these, AMD could forge new partnerships on future handheld PC gaming systems, as well as in high-performance, lightweight gaming laptops and tablets.
AI is likely to be a major focus for AMD, too. It’s been coming up with innovative ways to use the neural processors on its new CPUs designs, including as an aid to tabletop gaming. Some of us have been using it for that for a while now, but it’s great to see AMD finding fun ways to leverage its chips, as Microsoft’s Recall still gives us the creeps.
ASUS has started selling its UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics card in Europe, bringing its take on Intel’s workstation GPU to customers with a hefty €1,799 recommended price. The card is available in Germany and Austria, while ASUS lists it at CHF 1,799 in Switzerland.
Intel first introduced the Arc Pro B70 in March 2026, with its own branded model starting at $949. ASUS’s version arrives several months later with the same core GPU architecture but a different cooling design and a higher power rating. The price also places it well above Intel’s original starting point, although the two prices are not directly comparable because ASUS’s European figure includes VAT.
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The warnings take up a surprisingly large part of the filing. Axios notes that more than 90 pages, or roughly a third of the prospectus, focus on risk factors. Many of them warn about what could happen as AI systems become more capable and autonomous.
AI giants have a growing autonomy problem on their hands. A new Axios report has revealed that Anthropic's Claude recently accessed publicly available Georgia vote count without human authorization, sparking fresh concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.