With the release of its Q1 2022 financial results, AMD also revealed its plans for Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 laptop CPUs, as seen in a slide tweeted by former Anandtech editor Dr. Ian Cutress.
It plans to target extreme gaming laptops with its new Dragon Range series, which promises the highest core, thread and cache ever for a mobile gaming CPU” and has unveiled the Phoenix series of thin and light laptops.
The Dragon Range features a 55W TDP and is designed for laptops over 20mm thick that are designed largely for on-the-go use, The Verge reported. It will have PCIe 5 architecture and DDR5 memory, although on some models
It might work with LPDDR5 more efficiently but with lower performance, AMD told Cutress.
As with the Ryzen 9 4900HS chip, the Dragon Range will use the “HS” suffix. Although the 55W TDP is relatively high, it “will be more energy efficient than other laptops in that competing timeframe,” according to AMD’s director of technical marketing, Robert Hallock.
Alongside the Dragon Range, AMD will release the Ryzen 7000 series Zen 4 “Phoenix” designed for thin and light laptops less than 20mm thick with 35-45W TDPs.
These will also use the PCIe 5 architecture, but they mainly come with RAM
LPDDR5 randomization. As with the Dragon Range, some models can use DDR5 memory as well.
The Ryzen 7000 will debut on desktop later this year with the Raphael series, replacing the Ryzen 5000. These will be the first Zen 4 and AM5 platform chips that use a TSMC 5nm process node to hit the mainstream market. AMD has not revealed other details regarding its Dragon Range and Phoenix laptop chips, but they are expected to be released sometime in 2023.
In terms of earnings, AMD beat market expectations with revenue of $5.89 billion, an increase of 71 percent in sales year-over-year. He also mentioned that starting from the next quarter, games will be divided into a separate financial segment that shows sales of consoles (PS5, Xbox Series X, etc.) as well as Radeon graphics for PC as part of a single gaming company separate from Ryzen chips. The company will explain all this in more detail next month.
