AMD’s Ryzen 7040U chips have proven very popular with handheld gaming PC makers this year, thanks to their blend of AMD Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 integrated graphics. But now that AMD has introduced its next-gen chips, we’re starting to see handheld gaming PC makers announce plans to launch models with Ryzen 8040U […]
hawk point
Posted inNews
Geekom teases Intel Meteor Lake and AMD Hawk Point mini PCs ahead of CES 2024
Chinese mini PC maker Geekom has announced it’s bringing two upcoming models sporting the latest Intel and AMD processors to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The Geekom IT14 Pro is a mini PC with support for up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake processor, while the Geekom A8Max supports up […]
Posted inNews
ASRock 4×4 BOX 8040 mini PCs feature AMD’s new Ryzen 8040U chips with AI features
AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” chips are nearly identical to the previous-gen Ryzen 7040 series processors when it comes to CPU and graphics core counts and frequencies. But thanks to a next-gen neural processing unit (NPU), AMD says its new chips should deliver up to a 1.4X improvement in on-device AI tasks. So it’s […]
Posted inNews
AMD’s Ryzen 8040 Mobile “Hawk Point” chips bring AI improvements… and not much else
When AMD’s Ryzen 7040 Mobile “Phoenix” processors launched earlier this year, they offered a lot of bang for the buck by combining up to 8 Zen 4 CPU cores with up to 12 RDNA 3 GPU compute units. They’re also the first x86 chips to feature an integrated NPU (neural processing unit) for on-device AI […]
Posted inNews
13 Comments on MINISFORUM V3 is a 2-in-1 tablet a 28W AMD Ryzen processor and a 165 Hz display (coming in Q1, 2024)
MINISFORUM V3 is a 2-in-1 tablet a 28W AMD Ryzen processor and a 165 Hz display (coming in Q1, 2024)
13 Comments on MINISFORUM V3 is a 2-in-1 tablet a 28W AMD Ryzen processor and a 165 Hz display (coming in Q1, 2024)MINISFORUM is best known for making small desktop computers, but the company plans to launch a high-performance 2-in-1 tablet early next year. It’s called the MINISFORUM V3 tablet, and it will have a 28-watt AMD Ryzen processor, a 14 inch, 2.5K 165 Hz display, support for up to 32GB of RAM, two USB4 ports, and […]