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AMD’s newest Ryzen 7040U mobile chips feature smaller Zen 4c CPU cores

The new AMD Ryzen 5 7545U and Ryzen 3 7440U chips are the first laptop processors to feature AMD’s new Zen 4c CPU cores, which first debuted earlier this year in some of the company’s EPYC server chips and the entry-level AMD Ryzen Z1 chip for handheld gaming PCs. So what makes a Zen 4c processor core different from […]

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The Asus ROG Ally with AMD Ryzen Z1 is now available for $600 (or $100 less than the Z1 Extreme version)

The Asus ROG Ally is a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS LCD display featuring a 120 Hz refresh rate, 16GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory, a 512GB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD and an AMD Ryzen Z1 series processor featuring RDNA 3 graphics. First announced in May, the ROG Ally […]

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AMD’s first hybrid chips feature Zen 4 and smaller Zen 4c cores

Most of the AMD Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” chips that have shipped to date feature a combination of Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 graphics. But the company has quietly begun shipping processors that feature “Phoenix 2” architecture with a mix of Zen 4 and smaller Zen 4c CPU cores. While AMD hasn’t officially said […]

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AMD EPYC server chips with up to 96 Zen 4 CPUs coming in 2022, 128-core Zen 4c coming in 2023

AMD’s most powerful chips available at the moment feature 7nm CPU cores based on the company’s Zen 3 architecture. But the company is preparing to launch 5nm chips featuring Zen 4 technology next year. During the company’s Accelerated Data Center Premiere event, AMD CEO Lisa Su previewed next-gen EPYC server chips set to launch in […]