AMD used Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona to push its AI ambitions across two fronts simultaneously: commercial AI PCs and the telco infrastructure backbone. The chipmaker unveiled the Ryzen AI 400 Series desktop processors — billed as the world’s first next-gen AI PC chips — alongside the EPYC 8005 Series aimed at the telco edge, and gave attendees a virtual look at its upcoming “Helios” rack-scale architecture.
The announcements span AMD’s entire stack, from the laptop and desktop sitting on your desk to the distributed AI systems powering 5G networks and massive AI training clusters.
AI PCs Get a Desktop Push
The Ryzen AI 400 Series desktop processors extend AMD’s AI PC portfolio beyond laptops. AMD also announced Ryzen AI 400 mobile variants for workstations, with third-party research cited by the company suggesting mobile business professionals can reclaim up to 40% of productivity time through AI-enabled workflows. The Ryzen PRO line layers on enterprise-grade security features — hardware-backed zero trust, DASH manageability — for IT departments that need control alongside AI performance.
Telco Gets EPYC
On the network side, AMD announced the EPYC 8005 Series processors optimized for telco edge deployments. Nokia is already using them to run Cloud Packet Core and IMS workloads, supporting 5G Standalone, Voice over New Radio (VoNR), IoT, and enterprise AI services. Separately, AMD joined the Open Telco AI initiative alongside GSMA and AT&T, signaling its intent to be a serious player in open, AI-enabled network infrastructure.
Live on the show floor, AMD demonstrated Llama 3.2 1B running directly on an AMD Alveo V70 FPGA accelerator — showing that edge inference doesn’t require a data center’s worth of GPUs.
Helios: The Future of AI at Scale
AMD offered a virtual model of “Helios,” its upcoming rack-scale architecture that integrates AMD Instinct MI400 GPUs, AMD Pensando DPUs, and next-generation EPYC CPUs. No hard launch date was given, but the demo signals AMD’s roadmap for competing in the hyperscale AI training market.
“The Edge of Intelligence” panel at MWC, featuring AMD’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, focused on how AI, IoT, and 5G convergence are enabling smart factories, predictive logistics, and telemedicine — all areas where AMD’s edge silicon plays a role.
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) designs high-performance computing, graphics, and visualization technologies for data centers, gaming, and client computing markets.
