AAI 2026: AMD and Cisco Bring Enterprise Control to Local AI

New collaboration will combine AMD Ryzen AI Halo systems with Cisco networking, observability, governance and security technologies to help enterprises scale agentic AI from the data center to the desk.

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What’s the News? AMD and Cisco are collaborating to help enterprises scale hybrid and local agentic AI with the performance, security, visibility and centralized control needed for production deployments. At Advancing AI 2026, AMD and Cisco explained how their joint work will explore how AMD Ryzen™ AI Halo systems combined with Cisco networking, observability and security technologies can help organizations bring AI compute closer to employees, devices and enterprise data while maintaining the governance and manageability IT teams require.

Why it Matters? As agentic AI moves from experimentation to real enterprise workflows, organizations need more than powerful endpoints. AI agents can run continuously and act on enterprise data, but create new requirements for network infrastructure, tokenomics, agent behavior, and security. Running more AI locally can help improve responsiveness, keep sensitive data closer to users, and reduce dependence on cloud-only approaches, but enterprises also need a way to monitor and manage these systems at scale. AMD and Cisco are addressing that gap by collaborating to pair high-performance local AI compute with the observability, governance, and control infrastructure needed for enterprises to deploy it responsibly.

What’s AMD’s Role?

AMD is providing the local AI compute foundation enterprises need to bring agentic AI closer to employees, devices and data. By combining AMD Ryzen™ AI Halo systems and our broader local AI software capabilities with Cisco’s enterprise networking, observability and security technologies, we are helping customers deploy AI in a way that is performant, secure, observable and manageable at scale. This collaboration reinforces AMD’s vision for AI everywhere, from the cloud and data center to the enterprise, client and edge.
— Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD

What’s Cisco’s Role? Cisco shares more detail on the joint work and its perspective on resilient deskside AI in a new blog.

More: Advancing AI 2026 (Press Kit)

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