Campfire Audio is not exactly easing into 2026 quietly. The Portland-based IEM specialist has introduced Chimera, a new flagship $7,500 wired in-ear monitor that combines dynamic, balanced armature, electrostatic, and bone conduction driver technologies in one rather ambitious design.

Chimera just made its public debut at CanJam Singapore 2026 (May 16-17), with pre-sale beginning May 16th and shipping expected in early summer 2026. The timing makes sense. As we discovered at CanJam NYC 2026, wired IEMs are having a very real moment, which might seem strange in a world where tens of millions of listeners have made wireless earbuds their default source. Convenience still wins the subway. But for listeners chasing resolution, scale, imaging, and a more physical connection to the music, wired IEMs are showing real legs. Very expensive legs, mind you. The kind that apparently require a bespoke cable and a second look at your credit card limit. American Express already told me to forget about it.

Our recent review of the Campfire Audio Andromeda 10, released for the company’s anniversary, made it clear just how far the category has come. Better tuning, better driver integration, better materials, and far more ambitious engineering have pushed wired IEMs well beyond the old “audiophile niche” box. Chimera looks like Campfire Audio’s next line in the sand: a nine driver flagship built to prove that the wired IEM fight is not only alive, but getting a lot more interesting.

Nine Drivers, Four Technologies, and One Very Crowded Magnesium Shell

Chimera is built around a nine driver architecture that combines four different driver technologies, which is exactly the kind of thing that sounds absurd until you remember this is the flagship IEM category and restraint left the room several invoices ago. Walk around the show floor at any CanJam and none of this starts to feel absurd.

The driver array includes a newly developed 10mm True Glass dynamic driver handling low and low mid frequencies, a dual diaphragm balanced armature for midrange detail, two dedicated high frequency balanced armatures for clarity and articulation, and four electrostatic supertweeters designed to extend the top end with more air and precision.

For the first time in a Campfire Audio IEM, Chimera also adds a 10mm bone conduction driver, embedded directly into the CNC machined magnesium shell. The goal is to make low frequencies feel more physical, not just audible, adding weight and impact without asking the dynamic driver to do all of the heavy lifting.

Campfire has also worked a number of internal acoustic elements into the design, including an embedded pressure valve that regulates airflow behind the dynamic driver and a final stage “Master Track” tuning damper integrated into the nozzle. Those parts are not there for brochure decoration. They are designed to help control pressure, refine the final output, and make the transition between the different driver types feel more seamless.

Chimera is rated at 5.5 ohms impedance at 1kHz, with a frequency response of 5Hz to 20kHz, sensitivity of 94dB at 1kHz, and THD listed at less than 0.5%. That low impedance figure suggests users will want to be thoughtful about source matching, because flagship IEMs this sensitive to the chain can expose noise, output impedance issues, and poor gain structure rather quickly.

“Chimera is the most advanced in ear monitor we’ve developed at Campfire so far,” said Ken Ball, Founder of Campfire Audio. “It reflects a new horizon in the performance of Campfire products and expands on what is possible from compact, portable audio systems. It brings together a range of technologies and engineering techniques to create an experience that truly deepens the listener’s connection to music.”

Magnesium Shell, Damascus Faceplate, and the Return of ALO Audio

Chimera’s exterior design follows the same theme as its internal layout: multiple materials, tight tolerances, and very little evidence that Campfire was trying to keep things simple.

The shell is machined from billet magnesium and finished with a PVD coating, with gold and black versions available. Campfire says magnesium was selected for its combination of strength and lower weight, but it also plays a functional role here because the bone conduction driver is integrated directly into the shell. In other words, the enclosure is not just jewelry for the driver array. It is part of how the design is intended to work.

The faceplate uses a carbon fiber and brass Damascus construction, with layers of brass folded into carbon fiber and then CNC machined to create the final patterned surface. Because of that process, each pair has subtle visual differences. That does not change the sound, but it does give Chimera a more distinctive look than another flat black shell with an exotic price tag.

Other hardware details include a machined brass nozzle with an integrated mesh screen, custom brass fasteners for added reinforcement, and standard 2 pin connectors. The use of 2 pin connectors is worth noting because it keeps Chimera compatible with a wide range of aftermarket cable options, even though Campfire is including a high-performance and custom cable in the box.

Chimera ships with the ALO Audio Valence 6 cable, which also marks the return of the ALO Audio brand. The cable uses four high purity copper conductors along with two 50/50 copper and silver plated copper conductors. The termination housing, y-split, and chin slider are finished in black anodized aluminum.

Campfire also includes a black leather zipper case with a built in display, Breezy Bag Micro two pocket mesh bag, microfiber cleaning cloth, IEM cleaning tool, and three sets of ear tips: High & Clear traction silicone, standard silicone, and Marshmallow foam, each supplied in small, medium, and large sizes.

The Bottom Line

Campfire Audio Chimera is unique because it is not just another multi-driver flagship IEM with a luxury shell and a terrifying price tag. It combines a 10mm True Glass dynamic driver, balanced armatures, four electrostatic supertweeters, and Campfire’s first bone conduction driver in a CNC-machined magnesium body. That combination puts it squarely in the top tier of modern wired IEM design, where the goal is not only detail retrieval, but scale, physical bass impact, treble extension, and better driver integration in something that still fits in your ears. At $7,500, subtlety has clearly left the building. 

What is missing? Wireless convenience, ANC, app control, EQ presets, Bluetooth codecs, and anything resembling mass-market practicality. This is not aimed at AirPods Pro, Sony, Bose, or Technics buyers, and it should not be judged by that yardstick. Chimera is for wired IEM listeners with serious portable sources, high-end DAPs, premium DAC/amp dongles, and enough experience to know whether they want this level of complexity near their skull. It is also for Campfire collectors and personal audio diehards who heard Andromeda 10 and wondered how much further Portland could push the engineering before someone had to check the zoning laws.

The obvious competitors are other statement-level hybrid and quadbrid IEMs, including Astell&Kern NOVUS, Empire Ears Odin MKII, Fir Audio Xenon 6, Fir Audio Radon 6, and other high-end models that combine dynamic, balanced armature, electrostatic, and bone conduction or kinetic bass technologies. NOVUS, for example, uses a 13-driver quadbrid configuration with BA, electrostatic, bone conduction, and dynamic drivers, while Fir Audio’s Xenon 6 and Radon 6 play in the same physical-bass, hybrid-driver universe.

The ultra high-end IEM space is so competitive that Empire Ears recently announced that it was ceasing operations and Astell&Kern’s NOVUS sold out within months.

Chimera’s real pitch is simple: Campfire is taking its most ambitious swing yet at the ultra-high-end wired IEM category. The technology stack is unusual, the materials are serious, and the inclusion of bone conduction marks a meaningful shift for the brand. The price will narrow the audience fast, as it should. This is not for casual listeners looking to upgrade from wireless earbuds. It is for the small but very committed group of listeners who want wired IEMs to deliver more impact, more dimensionality, and more technical performance than the category was supposed to manage. 

Where to buy: $7,500 at Campfire Audio | Audio46

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Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.

Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven mitts she was made to wear to stop herself scratching. She also recalls being taken to hang out with her cousin while covered in blisters, in the hopes of deliberately infecting them.

DiVita, now 30, was actually the second in the chain, having been taken by her parents to catch chickenpox from an infectious friend. “I imagine the chain continued and my cousin gave it to someone else at a chickenpox play date,” she says.

A lot has changed over the past three decades, most notably the development of a chickenpox vaccine, meaning the virus is no longer the childhood rite of passage it once was.

Thanks to the vaccine’s success, children today are much less likely to be exposed to the infection at school or on the playground.

Chickenpox parties are also largely considered a relic of the past—a strategy many Gen X and millennial children were subjected to before vaccines became routine. But much like the virus itself—latent, opportunistic—they haven’t disappeared entirely.

Before a vaccine existed, chickenpox, which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, felt unavoidable. In temperate countries like the UK and the US, around 90 percent of children caught the virus before adolescence (in tropical countries the average age of infection is higher).

It’s nothing to do with chickens. The splotchy, scratchy, highly contagious disease is possibly named after the French word for chickpea, pois chiche, according to one theory, because the round bumps caused by the virus resemble their size and shape. While most infant cases are mild, adolescents and adults are more likely to develop severe complications.

This is where the idea of “getting it over and done with” emerged from, according to Maureen Tierney, associate dean of clinical research and public health at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

“You were trying to have your child get the disease when they were at the greatest chance of not having complications,” Tierney says, explaining that, generally speaking, the older the patient, the more severe the infection can be.

While varicella-zoster is usually a mild, self-limiting disease in children, it can be much more severe—and sometimes life-threatening—in adults.

“I had an otherwise healthy adult patient who died of chickenpox pneumonia when I was first practicing,” Tierney says. “You never forget those scenarios.”

The virus spreads rapidly through respiratory droplets and contact with fluid from its characteristic blisters, meaning if one child contracts it, siblings and classmates are likely to be next, if unvaccinated.

Before the existence of social media, the idea that children should deliberately infect each other spread just as rapidly around communities—in conversations in the school yard, church groups, and pediatric waiting rooms—leading to the popularity of so-called chickenpox parties.

Parents swapped advice about oatmeal baths and calamine lotion and arranged to bring children together when one was thought to be infectious—despite the practice never being an official medical recommendation.

“They thought, well, if it’s going to happen to my kid anyway, it might as well happen in a controlled environment,” says Monica Abdelnour, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. “The families were ready to encounter this infection, deal with it, and then move on.”

While the majority of children who develop chickenpox feel well again within a week or two, around three in every 1,000 infected experience a severe complication such as pneumonia, serious bacterial skin infections, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), or meningitis.

• OpenAI is offering every Maltese citizen free access to ChatGPT Plus for a year
• The move is part of its OpenAI for Countries initiative
• Citizens will need to complete a course developed by the University of Malta

OpenAI has revealed a new government partnership which will see it provide every resident in Malta with free access to ChatGPT Plus for a year.

The approximate 575,000 citizens of the Mediterranean island nation will be able to get access to the AI tool in what OpenAI calls a “world’s first partnership”.

Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail.

This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading.

Over the past few years, Big Tech has been quietly (and not so quietly) placing its bets. Meta has been selling AI-enabled Ray-Ban glasses since 2023, Google is building Android XR, and Apple is expected to enter the market. Last week, Samsung was reportedly set to unveil its first AI-capable smart glasses, co-designed with Gentle Monster, at a Galaxy Unpacked event in London this July. China’s Huawei, Alibaba, Xiaomi and others are all moving too.

The numbers reflect the momentum. Global AI glasses shipments surged to 8.7 million units in 2025, up more than 300% from the prior year, and analysts project that figure will cross 15 million this year, per Omdia.

Suppliers and component makers of AI-powered smartglasses are also positioning themselves for what comes next. One of the companies, a South Korean startup called LetinAR, has spent the last decade building the optical technology that could make all of this actually wearable.

The LG Electronics-backed startup just secured $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank and the South Korean retail giant’s venture arm, Lotte Ventures, among others, ahead of its planned 2027 IPO in South Korea.

Its previous investor, LG Electronics, has since begun developing its own AI smart glasses, according to a local media report, which is a sign of how seriously South Korea’s largest consumer electronics company takes the category.

CEO Jaehyeok Kim and CTO Jeonghun Ha, who have been friends since high school, founded LetinAR together in 2016.

The lens that makes it wearable

LetinAR doesn’t make the glasses. It makes the part that makes the glasses work. The optical module, the tiny lens component that projects images into your field of vision, is what determines whether a pair of smart glasses feels like a sci-fi headset or something you’d actually wear to work, Ha told TechCrunch. It has to be light, thin, and power-efficient, while still delivering a sharp, clear image. Getting all of that right in a single component, small enough to fit inside a normal-looking frame, is the central engineering challenge of the entire industry. That’s what LetinAR is building.

“We see AI glasses as that next platform,” Kim said. “And the optical module is the hardest part to get right as AI glasses makers will need a lens that is thinner, lighter, and more power-efficient than what exists today.”

The co-founders said LetineAR wants to be the company those glasses makers call. The company calls its technology PinTILT: a way of arranging tiny optical elements inside a lens so that light is directed precisely where it needs to go, into the user’s eye, rather than scattered in every direction.

Think of a TV. It broadcasts light across an entire room, but only the light that actually reaches your eyes matters. Most existing smart lens technologies, particularly a dominant approach called waveguide, work a bit like that TV, splitting and spreading light across the full lens to create a wide image. The result is a thin lens, but an inefficient one. A lot of light gets thrown away before it ever reaches the eye, which means dimmer images and, critically, a battery that drains fast, Ha explained.

The alternative, a mirror-based approach known as birdbath, delivers light more directly to the eye, but the structure is bulky, making it nearly impossible to fit inside something that looks like a normal pair of glasses.

PinTILT sidesteps that tradeoff, Ha said. By focusing only on the light that can actually enter the eye and carefully engineering the angle of each tiny element inside the lens, LetinAR claims it can produce a brighter image in a thinner, lighter form factor, using less power. In a category where every gram and every hour of battery life matters, that’s the problem the entire industry has been trying to solve.

In the space, there are a number of peers like WaveOptics, DigiLens and Lumus.

Customers

Its modules are already shipping. LetinAR counts Japan’s NTT QONOQ Devices and Dynabook, formerly known as Toshiba Client Solutions, among its customers, giving the company real manufacturing experience at scale. It is in talks with Big Tech companies on R&D of next-generation AI glasses, though it declined to name them.

One of LetinAR’s most demanding customers is Aegis Rider, a Swiss deeptech company spun out of ETH Zurich’s Computer Vision Lab. Aegis Rider is building an AI-powered AR helmet that displays navigation, speed, and safety alerts directly in a motorcycle rider’s field of vision, not floating on the visor, but anchored to the road itself, as if the information is physically painted on the world ahead.

LetinAR’s module is inside the helmet. Aegis Rider is targeting the EU and Swiss markets in 2026.

The latest funding, which brings the total raised to $41.7 million, will go toward scale-up as the AI glasses market shifts from early adopters to mass production, said Kim, adding that hardware devices, such as AI glasses, are the next layer that will bring AI into everyday life.

Microsoft has confirmed that the May 2026 Windows 11 security update (KB5089549) fails to install on some systems and triggers 0x800f0922 errors.

This known issue is caused by insufficient free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), which results in the update automatically rolling back on affected devices.

“This issue affects devices with limited free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), especially when the device has 10 MB or less space available,” Microsoft said.

“On affected devices, the installation might proceed through the initial phases but fail during the reboot phase at approximately 35–36% completion.”

Users impacted by these installation problems also see the “Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes.” message when the installation rolls back, and may find log entries pointing to insufficient ESP free space, such as:

• “SpaceCheck: Insufficient free space”
• “ServicingBootFiles failed. Error = 0x70”
• “SpaceCheck: used by third-party/OEM files outside of Microsoft boot directories”

While Microsoft is still working to resolve this issue, it advised affected customers to mitigate it using the Known Issue Rollback (a Windows feature that reverses buggy updates pushed via Windows Update).

In enterprise-managed environments where IT departments control Windows updates, admins can manually mitigate it by installing and configuring this Group Policy.

“You will need to install and configure the Group Policy for your version of Windows to resolve this issue,” Microsoft said. “You will also need to restart your device(s) to apply the group policy setting. Note that the Group Policy will temporarily disable the change causing this issue.”

You can find further guidance on deploying and configuring Known Issue Rollback group policies on Microsoft’s support website.

Microsoft released the KB5089549 cumulative update last week, along with dozens of other bug fixes, security patches, and improvements, including a fix for another known issue that causes some Windows 11 systems to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 Windows security updates.

Earlier this month, Microsoft also addressed a Windows Autopatch bug that caused driver updates restricted by administrative policies to be deployed on some Autopatch-managed Windows devices across the European Union, and confirmed that the April 2026 security updates were causing failures in third-party backup applications using a vulnerable driver.

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I couldn’t be more pleased that the first two episodes Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hauser) Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch has gone down well with critics and fans alike.

The pair has moved from their native Montana to a new ranch in Texas, immediately running into trouble with rival ranch 10 Petal. What’s more, no-nonsense owner Beulah (Annette Bening) is trying to cover up a huge secret thanks to her out of control son Rob-Will (Jai Courtney).

Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex’s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial’s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it.

A Reuters investigation published on Monday documents that Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, has processed at least $2.3bn since 2023 on the Tron and BNB Chain blockchains. Tron was founded by Justin Sun.

BNB Chain was developed by Binance, the exchange owned by Changpeng Zhao. Both Sun and Zhao are the two most prominent early backers of World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm co-founded by Donald Trump and his family. There is no suggestion that the Trump family knew about Nobitex’s use of either network.

Reuters’ breakdown of public blockchain data, sourced from Arkham, puts about $2bn of the Nobitex flow on Tron and $317m on BNB Chain since 1 January 2023, with $22.6m on BNB Chain and $550,000 via Tron since the Iran war began in February.

Four crypto analysts called the calculation sound; independent investigator Rich Sanders said the true figure was probably higher, since public flows are visible only for known Nobitex addresses and the exchange has admitted to switching addresses to avoid tracing.

The principals’ positions on the news are all on the record. The White House response, from spokeswoman Anna Kelly, described the article as ‘bizarre attempts to link President Trump to Iran’s banking system’ that were ‘totally laughable’.

A spokeswoman for World Liberty said the company ‘has no relationship with Nobitex and follows U.S. law’, adding that ‘World Liberty does not own, operate, or control Tron in any way, and has no authority over transactions conducted on it’. Nobitex said any illicit funds passed through the exchange ‘without management approval or awareness’.

A Tron spokeswoman said the network ‘is a technology provider’ that cannot ‘monitor and investigate every user and every transaction’. Binance said it was ‘an initial contributor and incubator’ of BNB Chain rather than its operator.

Binance’s corporate-structure caveat sits inside a longer record. Abu Dhabi filings reviewed by Reuters show Zhao as the sole listed shareholder of BNB Chain Technology Holding Limited, the entity to which BNB Chain’s operations were transferred in 2023.

Reuters’ 2022 reporting found about $7.8bn in crypto flowed between Nobitex and Binance from 2018 to 2022, roughly three-quarters in Tron’s native asset, with Nobitex actively encouraging clients to use Tron to trade ‘without endangering assets due to sanctions’.

The Trump family’s commercial position in WLF is the structural fact underneath the reporting. Sun’s portfolio of 4 billion WLFI tokens is worth roughly $266m, according to Reuters’ calculations; Binance now holds $3.8bn of the Trump-family token.

Abu Dhabi’s MGX bought a $2bn stake in Binance in early 2025 and announced the transaction would be settled in WLF’s USD1 stablecoin. Trump’s October 2025 pardon of Zhao, wiping his federal conviction for failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering programme, sits alongside that commercial timeline.

Binance and Zhao’s lawyers have said there was no connection between the USD1 deal and the pardon.

The narrower money-laundering arc is now well-documented. Tether froze multiple Nobitex wallet addresses at the request of Israel’s National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing.

Elliptic and the same two Iran specialists reported in January that the Central Bank of Iran, sanctioned by the US in 2019 over alleged IRGC and Hezbollah financing, bought more than $500m of tether via Tron between November 2024 and June 2025, of which roughly $347m was routed to Nobitex in the first half of 2025.

The central bank also converted holdings into other coins and moved them across BNB Chain to obscure the trail.

What the United States has not done is sanction Nobitex itself. Reuters notes plainly that it could not determine the reason. Watchdog group Public Citizen, in a parallel report, has called the WLF/Binance/Iran chain a ‘conflict coin’ and pressed for Treasury and DOJ investigations.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed have separately sought formal probes into WLF’s sanctions controls, which the company has said are ‘the highest standard in the industry’.

The named principals had already fallen out before the Reuters investigation. Sun sued World Liberty in April over allegedly frozen assets; WLF countersued in early May, alleging defamation.

The blockchain data does not, on the investigation’s own framing, prove coordinated conduct. It documents that two of the people most exposed to the financial upside of the Trump family’s crypto company are also the architects of the two networks that Iran’s largest sanctioned-flow conduit runs on.

Ubotica will deploy and operate AI models directly in orbit using Novi’s smart-satellite constellation.

Dublin-based NASA and the European Space Agency collaborator, Ubotica, is partnering with Texas’ Novi Space to deliver real-time intelligence from the Earth’s orbit.

Novi provides computing technology for spacecrafts, alongside a constellation of multi-sensor edge-processing satellites linked to an intelligence management platform.

The open-access platform allows companies to build AI-powered applications in space, including improving Earth observation, geospatial intelligence and autonomy.

The collaboration integrates Ubotica’s AI platform with Novi’s ‘Genie’ smart-satellite constellation and platform to enable Earth observation data to be processed directly onboard satellites, unlike traditional systems that transfer data to Earth before analysis.

Through the partnership, Ubotica will deploy and operate AI models directly in orbit through the Genie multi-sensor satellite platform.

The Dublin start-up’s ‘Space:AI’ platform generates analysis within 90 seconds from when it begins processing, it said, resulting in lower latency and bandwidth costs translating to savings.

According to the company, in a single observation of a Singapore port, the platform processed hundreds of vessels and detected those operating dark in under two minutes. The company has deployed its AI capabilities on numerous missions, including its own CogniSAT-6 satellite.

“Our collaboration with Novi brings more AI-enabled Earth observation capacity into orbit. By combining Space:AI with Genie’s onboard compute, we’re shifting satellites from data collectors to intelligent agents, delivering insights in minutes rather than days,” said Ubotica co-founder and chief technology officer Dr Aubrey Dunne.

“That capability underpins our live maritime intelligence service and unlocks new operational models for time-critical surveillance.” The start-up won the SpaceNews Icon Award for Space AI Partnership last December, alongside NASA JPL and Open Cosmos.

Michael Bartholomeusz, the CEO of Novi Space added: “Partnering with Ubotica allows us to demonstrate the full potential of Genie – delivering real-time intelligence from orbit, not just data. This is a fundamental shift in how space-based systems create value.”

Ubotica and NASA announced a partnership last month to onboard the start-up’s AI platforms in a test mission to demonstrate autonomous intelligent satellite networks. In February, the company was among the first chosen for involvement in Ireland’s European Space Agency Phi-Lab at Irish Manufacturing Research.

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AMD has launched the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors for commercial desktops and workstations. With these processors, the company offers enterprise-level 3D V-Cache capabilities to enhance performance for demanding workloads. AMD designed these processors for professionals working in content creation, architecture, engineering, and design.

These processors are the latest in AMD’s lineup, designed for commercial desktops and professional workstations. Along with performance upgrades for heavy workloads, the lineup also includes enterprise security and long-term platform support features.

3D V-Cache for Professional Workloads

3D V-Cache will be introduced in enterprise workstation processors with the upcoming Ryzen PRO 9000 Series. With increased cache memory, the company aims to improve processor performance when handling intensive tasks or applications. The increased cache memory will enhance the performance of applications working on large files by making it easier for them to access them. The company states that the technology aims to increase processor efficiency in professional environments.

The Ryzen PRO 9000 Series is designed for professionals such as creators, architects, engineers, and designers who rely on heavy-duty professional software. According to AMD, the chips will provide improved performance during the editing and encoding of videos in 4K and 8K resolutions, along with compositing performance in media workflows. The processors are also intended for architects and construction professionals, including BIM and 3D modeling. Manufacturing professionals working with CAD models and simulations will benefit from the performance of this series of chips.

Performance and Security

The AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series comes in various configurations designed for desktop computers and business workstations. These CPUs are offered in six-core, eight-core, 12-core, and 16-core varieties with several thermal design power (TDP) choices. AMD has created high-performance CPUs for individuals who require reliable performance on challenging projects.

Along with performance upgrades, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series also focuses on enterprise reliability and security. As part of the AMD PRO platform, the processors include advanced security protections and manageability tools for IT departments. AMD says the platform supports long-term business deployments with stable and consistent performance.

Availability Details

According to AMD, the Ryzen PRO 9000 Series processors will arrive in the second half of 2026. Lenovo has already confirmed that it will feature the new processors in its ThinkStation P4 workstation at NXTBLD. AMD may also announce additional OEM partners and systems closer to launch.

AMD Ryzen PRO 9000 Series Specifications