AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux.

Back at CES in January, Lisa Su showed off the Ryzen AI Halo as a mini PC built around their powerful Strix Halo platform and to compete with the likes of NVIDIA GB10 / DGX Spark products for AI workloads. The Ryzen AI Halo comes with up to 128GB of unified memory, support for up to 200B parameter large language models, and is optimized to run AI workflows out-of-the-box. For AI users it's a polished, out-of-the-box alternative to the likes of Framework Desktop and other Strix Halo mini PCs.

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo advertises official Linux support and AMD has even been developing an RGB LED light bar driver for the Ryzen AI Halo device. That light bar driver isn't yet mainline in the Linux kernel but it's working there.

Besides the light bar driver not yet being in the mainline kernel, as far as I know all the Ryzen AI Halo support is mainline in the Linux kernel already. AMD Strix Halo as tested on the Framework Desktop and formerly HP ZBook Ultra G1a has been doing great on Linux so by and large the Ryzen AI Halo should be ready to roar. And with official ROCm support.

AMD is running the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform pre-orders via Micro Center. The pre-order price is $3999 USD for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB of RAM and 2TB NVMe SSD. There are separate options for either Linux or Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box with no cost difference.

Those wishing to learn more about the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform pre-orders can do so at AMD.com. Hopefully we get the chance soon to check out the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform on Linux to see how its working out and performing in diverse Linux environments.