This post was updated 6/3/2024 at 8:21 a.m.
ET to include more information about OEMs who will sport the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips.
The new Ryzen AI 300 series boasts better performance than either Intel or Qualcomm, plusneural processing capabilities.
You’ll start to find new Ryzen AI 300 series chips in Copilot+ PCs in just a few months.Image: AMD
The chips industry has always been a game of one-upmanship.
AMD is mainly focused on hyping up its two new chip series.
Microsoft says it needs NPUs with at least 40 TOPS to mark them for Copilot+ PCs.
Image: AMD
The chips also have the RDNA 3.5 built-in GPU for some mobile graphics work or gaming.
This includes Acer with its Swift series of laptops that are slated for later this year.
What is Zen 5?
These new chips sport the new centralized architecture from AMD, namely Zen 5, on the CPU end.
What does this mean for PCs?
Zen 5 is different from the XDNA 2 NPU architecture.
All those gaming-centric CPUs should be arriving in July this year.
Theres good news for anybody with the motherboard supporting the AM5 socket.
After over eight years of running, AMD plans to end support for AM4 sometime in or after 2025.
Zen 5 will continue to be specific to AM5.
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