
Unveiled at IFA 2026, realizing up to 192GB memory and 131 TOPS AI performance
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IFA 2026 is an exhibition held in Germany. ACEMAGIC is a company that designs and manufactures small PCs.
On September 4th (local time), ACEMAGIC announced the AI mini workstation "F9A" equipped with AMD's latest processor "Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495" at the exhibition "IFA 2026" currently being held in Germany. Release date and price have not been determined.
The body size is approximately 158.5 (width) x 158.5 (depth) x 81.5 (height) mm, and has a compact design of approximately 2 liters. It offers an alternative to traditional small PCs for developers and creators who require high computing power and large memory capacity while saving space.
The top model is equipped with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, which has a 16-core, 32-thread CPU and integrated Radeon 8065S graphics, clocking up to 5.2GHz. It supports up to 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, and the overall system AI processing performance can reach up to 131 TOPS.
The core of this product is large-capacity unified memory. The CPU, graphics, and AI processing unit (NPU) share the same memory area, providing sufficient headroom for local AI inference and large-scale data processing. Utilizing this environment, the company succeeded in locally executing a large-scale language model "DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B" with hundreds of billions of parameters.
Connection interfaces include two USB4 ports, dual 2.5GbE wired LAN, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, HDMI 2.1, and DisplayPort 2.1. It also has a PCIe 4.0 x4-based OCuLink interface. For storage, it is equipped with an M.2 2280 slot that supports up to 4TB of SSD.

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