At CES 2026, we had the opportunity to sit down in Las Vegas, Nevada, with key AMD representatives on the future of their hardware stack. One of the most pertinent topics was AMD's ROCm software stack for accelerated computing.
With all of the eyes of the world on boosting AI performance, this is a crucial avenue for AMD, as Radeon Open Compute is a part of the backbone for its Instinct AI accelerators and powers performance in key AI workloads such as Inference. AMD also discusses its FSR 4, among other subjects, in this roundtable interview we attended at CES 2026.
Before we begin, some elements of the transcript have been edited for flow and clarity. As some speakers did not name themselves, we have identified them as AMD representatives and Journalists in the following passages.
To catch up on our other transcripts, check out our Intel Panther Lake Q&A, our FSR Redstone Q&A, and our roundup of Jensen Huang's Q&A. Ahead of reading this transcript, be sure to catch up on AMD's keynote below.
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AMD Representative: So just in terms of introduction, I think you might know already, but Andrej is the chief software officer, so the head software guy at AMD, and I'm the product manager, among other things, for the for the for the consumer side, the client side, so Radeon, and stuff like that. Like Adrenalin, that's kind of my baby in terms of roadmap and stuff like that.
And so we wanted the opportunity. We told Stacey, anyone wants to talk to us about software? We love software, obviously. The key thing, of course, is, as you noticed in the keynote, it's a lot about AI, and I was actually complaining to Andrej saying, "I'm the gaming, I'm the fun stuff!" We still do a lot on that side as well, but the key thing and why Andrej and I are here is because we're going to introduce something in Adrenalin in the next couple of weeks, and you guys will probably get the decks and all that kind of stuff.
Andrej Zdravkovic (AMD): I think it was released.
AMD Representative: The whole press deck? Just the high-level messaging; I think just the high-level messaging. Anyways, the point is, you'll get some information on this, what we call an "AI bundle." So, at a super high level — not to give away everything, but — at a super high level, we're going to make AI development easier on client machines, and the way we're going to do that is, within Adrenalin, we're going to have purely optional installation and configuration of a bunch of AI tools, and apps, and stuff like that, to let users get over the intimidation factor of the basic consumer saying, "No, I don't know what this stuff is. I'm intimidated." I'm not talking about the enthusiasts that you guys probably write to; I'm talking about the non-enthusiasts that are extremely intimidated and never click anything other than just "next."
So that's kind of the super high-level philosophy of what we're doing. It's the vision of AI everywhere on AMD, whether it's the most advanced data centers or the most basic client laptop there is, and it's a way of encouraging the world to — or users, at least, to understand, and not encourage but accommodate their journey if they want to explore that kind of stuff. So that's kind of the 30-second pitch.
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