When will AMD zenbooks arrive?

[piesquared]

The power efficiency of Zen should allow AMDs partners to make very attractive devices. This architecture appears to be extremely flexible.

 

[Azuma Hazuki]

I thought I saw something in another thread saying Zen cores can scale down to 4-15W, i.e., the equivalent of Intel's Y and U series? Likely we won't see many Ryzen notebooks but rather Ravenridge, the APU version.

 

[piesquared]

From what we've learned about Zen over the past couple months, Raven Ridge does indeed appear to be a very attractive mobile APU. If it has Vega on board (which is likely considering Infinity Fabric), I think it would be the best mobile processor available.

 

[raghu78]

From what we've learned about Zen over the past couple months, Raven Ridge does indeed appear to be a very attractive mobile APU. If it has Vega on board (which is likely considering Infinity Fabric), I think it would be the best mobile processor available.

Very true. Zen is a competitive CPU core and Vega will be vastly superior to Intel graphics. Banded Kestrel (the embedded 2C/4T Zen APU) should have an equivalent for ultrathin notebooks and tablets. With a 4-15W TDP we should see some really good designs. Hopefully AMD can do outstanding reference designs for OEMs to adopt. The big challenge for AMD with Zen APUs would be getting OEMs to come out with SKUs which can compete with Intel SKUs on features like screen size and quality, SSDs, battery sizes, memory capacity etc.