AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores

AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and by any definition, the new APUs look to be absolute monsters for the enthusiast thin-and-light gaming and AI workstation laptop markets.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-beastly-strix-halo-ryzen-ai-max-debuts-with-radical-new-memory-tec

 AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops

AMD has launched its Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 200 series of mobile processors at CES 2025 at Las Vegas, debuting a total of 15 new models, across the PRO and non-PRO stack for mainstream and commercial laptops. The company also shared new benchmarks results, showcasing the performance of its Ryzen AI 7 350 against Intel’s Core Ultra 7 258V and Qualcomm’s X Plus X1P-42-100.

 AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors

AMD announced its two flagship Ryzen 9000-series X3D processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, with the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D leading the way with the potent Zen 5 architecture paired with AMD’s dominating game-boosting X3D technology to provide 128MB of L3 cache, all of which AMD says makes it the world’s best CPU for gaming and creator workloads.

 Dell kills XPS and Optiplex brands, adopts Apple-inspired three-tiered naming scheme for its PCs

No more Inspirons or XPS for Dell as it rebrands its consumer products as Dell, business and enterprise become Dell Pro, and workstation devices get Dell Pro Max branding.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/dell-kills-xps-and-optiplex-brands-adopts-apple-inspired-three-tiered-naming-scheme-for-its-pcs

 Acer’s eco-friendly Vero 16 laptop is made from oyster shells and recycled plastic

Vero 16 laptop ups the eco-friendly ante, at least on paper, with a chassis that the company claims is constructed of 70% post-consumer plastic and a “bio-based oyster shell material.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acers-eco-friendly-vero-16-laptop-is-made-from-oyster-shells-and-recycled-plastic

 Samsung showcases world’s first 18.1-inch foldable OLED display

Samsung Display has a bevy of new flexible OLED display solutions at CES 2025. Probably the highlight of its innovative exhibition is what it claims to be the 'world’s first 18.1-inch foldable' monitor.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/samsung-showcases-worlds-first-18-1-inch-foldable-oled-display


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