Ryzen Cell 7040HS “Phoenix” Laptops Delayed Till April

For everybody who has been eagerly ready for the primary laptops incorporating AMD’s monolithic Zen 4 cellular CPU, AMD sends phrase on a Friday afternoon that you simply’ll be ready a little bit longer. Laptops based mostly on AMD’s Ryzen Cell 7040HS collection CPUs have formally been delayed by a month, pushing their anticipated availability from March to April.

First detailed throughout AMD’s CES 2023 keynote, the Ryzen Mobile 7040HS series (codename Phoenix) is AMD’s first mobile-focused, monolithic die CPUs based mostly on the Zen 4 structure, and can be their flagship silicon for cellular gadgets for 2023. Apart from incorporating AMD’s newest CPU structure, Phoenix additionally provides into the combination an up to date RDNA3 structure iGPU, and for the primary time in any AMD CPU, a devoted AI processing block, which AMD has aptly named the Ryzen AI. All of which, in flip, is fabbed utilizing TSMC’s 4nm course of – making it the only most superior piece of silicon out of AMD but.

On the time of its announcement, laptops based mostly on Phoenix have been anticipated in March of this 12 months (i.e. this month). Nonetheless AMD has despatched over a short announcement on a sleepy Friday afternoon stating that gadgets based mostly on the brand new chips have been pushed again a month, to April, citing “platform readiness.” AMD’s full announcement is beneath:

To align with platform readiness and guarantee the very best consumer expertise, we now count on our OEM companions to launch the primary notebooks powered by Ryzen 7040HS Sequence processors in April.

Supply: AMD PR