AMD disclosed plans for its forthcoming Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series laptop CPUs with the announcement of its Q1 2022 financial results, as shown in a slide tweeted by former Anandtech editor Dr. Ian Cutress. With the new “Dragon Range” series, it intends to target “intense gaming laptops,” offering the “highest core, thread, and cache ever for a mobile gaming CPU.” It also debuted the Phoenix line of gaming laptops, which are thin and light.
The Dragon Range has a TDP of more than 55 watts and is intended for laptops thicker than 20mm that are primarily intended to be used when plugged in, according to The Verge. They’ll have a PCIe 5 architecture and DDR5 RAM, however certain versions may use more efficient but lesser performance LPDDR5, according to AMD.
The Dragon Range will utilize the same “HS” suffix as the Ryzen 9 4900HS processor. Despite the comparatively high 55 watt TDP, AMD’s technical marketing director, Robert Hallock, claims that they will be “much more power efficient than other laptops in that competing period.”
Along with the Dragon Range, AMD will release the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 “Phoenix” series APUs, which are targeted for thin and light laptops under 20mm thick and with TDPs ranging from 35 to 45 watts. These will likewise have a PCIe 5 design, but will be predominantly equipped with LPDDR5 RAM. Some models, like the Dragon Range, may use DDR5 memory.
The Ryzen 7000 series, which will replace the Ryzen 5000 portfolio, will debut first on desktop later this year with the Raphael series. These will be the first mainstream Zen 4, AM5 platform chips built on TSMC’s 5-nanometer manufacturing node. AMD did not give any other information on the Dragon Range and Phoenix laptop CPUs, although they are slated to be available in 2023.
On the profits front, AMD outperformed the market with revenue of $5.89 billion, a 71 percent increase in sales year over year. It also stated that from next quarter, it will segregate gaming into a new financial sector, displaying sales of chips for consoles (PS5, Xbox Series X, and so on) as well as Radeon graphics for PCs as part of a single gaming division separate from Ryzen CPUs. All of this will be explained in greater detail by the corporation next month.