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AMD’s 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you’ve got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year

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AMD’s 2025 laptop plans sure do include a lot of refreshed and rebranded APUs, but who cares when you’ve got Fire Range, Strix Halo, and four RDNA 4 mobile GPUs heading our way next year

It’s hard to believe that 2025 is only two months away now but with lots of new gaming PC stuff scheduled for release next year, it’s two months too long. If you were hoping for AMD to bring some of its desktop CPU magic to laptops, though, you might be disappointed to see that current plans point to a lot of refreshes and rebrands of current APUs. But countering them will be some seriously great gaming chips.

According to Wccftech, citing a now-removed video from Weibo user Golden Pig Upgrade Pack, the current Ryzen AI 300 series will still consist of Strix Point APUs—a CPU with up to four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c cores, and a GPU with 16 RDNA 3.5 compute units (CUs). However, they will be joined by a new chip, Kraken Point, that has all the hallmarks of being a partially disabled Strix Point processor. That’s because it just seems to have four fewer Zen 5c cores and CUs.

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