AMD Ryzen AI Halo Internal Hardware Overview
Removing the bottom panel, and you see this. It is clean and functional, but for most, this is the ideal place to stop.
On the bottom, we have our WiFi antenna wires and then the M.2 SSD. Here we have a 2280 M.2 SSD, which is a 2TB Micron model.
Like many of the GB10 units, there is a little cover over the WiFi solution, so you can have an easier time re-attaching if need be.
This flat cable goes to the outer ring. Our sense is that it controls the RGB ring around the chassis. Part of that sense comes from when we pulled on the pull tab near the SSD. Doing so, we severed this cable without realizing it, which turned off the RGB ring. If you enjoy the RGB ring, carefully remove this before disassembling the system.
Then comes the connector that gave us the most strife. This little connector has wires that go to the power button. AMD’s power button design is very good. This little connector, however, saw the wires pull out easily. We were not able to easily reseat the wires. That might seem like a minor issue, but the BIOS was not set to power on with AC power by default. As a result, we physically pushed the wires back into this connector, started the system, then flipped that BIOS setting so we could power on the system.
Once we got the board out, however, the assembly was great. Two big Delta fans, a copper (at least it feels like copper) heatsink. There is also plenty of padding around the heatsink.
On the side, you can see the CR2032 battery.
Here is the other side.
Here is another view of the front with the two fans. If you remember the two top chassis vents, and then look at the fans, it should make more sense.
Here is the rear view of the cooler with the heatsink fins.
As a quick note, this is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB of LPDDR5X memory. Since there is nothing socketed other than the M.2, realistically, you do not need to go this far, as there is nothing to service. Still, we opened it up so you did not have to.
Next, let us get to the topology and the developer experience.
