Razer entered the AI development space at CES 2026 with the Forge AI Dev Workstation, a powerful computer built to handle AI tasks locally instead of relying on cloud services. The system supports up to four professional graphics cards, either AMD or NVIDIA, alongside workstation processors from AMD or Intel, with room for eight DDR5 memory modules and multiple high-speed SSDs. After twenty years of making gaming hardware, the company is now targeting AI developers who want to avoid subscription fees and keep sensitive data on their own machines. The workstation comes with a 2000 W power supply or even dual PSUs for quad-GPU setups and industrial-grade cooling to manage demanding multi-GPU workloads.

The launch also includes AIKit, an open-source toolkit that works with over 280,000 large language models, plus a partnership with Tenstorrent on a portable Thunderbolt AI accelerator for laptop-based development. Users can daisy-chain multiple accelerator units for more performance when needed. The Forge workstation works as a standalone tower or can be rack-mounted for larger setups, letting teams scale their computing resources locally. Additionally, for smaller local AI development, Tenstorrent's Wormhole accelerator is more than enough to run LLMs with a smaller size, but for bigger work the Forge AI Dev is needed.

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