AMD is reportedly preparing its Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" lineup to tackle Intel Core 200 "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPUs for laptops.
Missing The AI & The Ultra, Both AMD & Intel Prep Laptop Refreshes With Red Team Going For Hawk Point Refresh "Ryzen 200" & Blue Team Going For Raptor Lake Refresh "Core 200" Series
It looks like both AMD & Intel are expected to release refreshes of their existing laptop CPU series for the mobility platforms. Both companies have launched or are on the verge of launching new series such as Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" and Core Ultra 200 "Arrow Lake" CPUs but there's still a demand from OEM to clear out existing inventories and what better way than to refresh the lineup under a new name.
Starting with the AMD Ryzen 200 series, this lineup will be based on the Hawk Point Refresh CPU family and feature very similar specifications as the existing Ryzen 8040 series. The lineup will max out at 8 cores, and 16 threads, based on the Zen 4 core architecture, feature up to 8 MB of L2, and 16 MB of L3 cache in TDPs ranging from 45-54W and will utilize the Radeon 780M iGPU with up to 12 Radeon "RDNA 3" compute units.
Given that Microsoft has increased the Copilot+ "AI PC" TOPS requirement to at least 45 TOPS, the chips won't use the "AI" branding as their maximum AI NPU compute is rated at 16 TOPS and the platform is rated at 39 TOPS.
Similarly, Intel is also expected to launch a Raptor Lake Refresh which will be a third of its kind with 13th and 14th Gen offerings already out. The new series will be branded under the Core 200 series and not Core Ultra 200 which is reserved for Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs. These CPUs will top out with up to 14 cores in 6+8 configurations, and offer up to 24 MB of cache and TDPs ranging from 35 to 115W. The iGPU will remain the same 96 EU "Iris Xe" configuration.
As for the launch, AMD's Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" CPUs will be launching early next year close to the Strix Halo and Krackan releases while Intel's Core 200 "Raptor Lake Refresh" will be launching in the first designs hitting shelves later this year. The laptops will still feature the current generation of GPUs (RTX 40 / RX 7000 / Arc A-Series) with only the next-gen platforms leveraging newer RTX 50 laptop configurations.
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