The release of its Q1 2022, financial results, revealed plans for its upcoming Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 series laptop CPUs, as seen in a slide by Ian Cutress. It is planning to target extreme gaming laptops with the new Dragon Range series, promising the highest core, thread and cache ever for a mobile gaming processor.
Well there we go, @AMD Dragon Range replaces the HX market, DDR5. Phoenix in the more traditional H market, LPDDR5 only. Process node not mentioned. Graphics not mentioned. $AMD pic.twitter.com/4BCYQSMe1z
— 𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress) May 3, 2022
The Dragon Range is designed for thicker laptops that are mostly designed to be used while plugged in. They will feature a PCIe 5 architecture andDDR5 RAM, though some models could work with more efficient but lower performing memory.
The Dragon Range will use the same name as the Ryzen 9 4900HS chip. Despite the relatively high 55 watt TDP, they will be more power efficient than other laptops, according to Robert Hallock, the technical marketing director.
Along with the Dragon Range, the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 and Phoenix series will be designed for thin and light laptops under 20mm thick. Those will use a PCIe 5 architecture, but only with LPDDR5 RAM. Some models could use the same type of memory as the Dragon Range.
The Raphael series will replace the Ryzen 5000 lineup on desktop later this year. The first Zen 4, AM5 platform chips will be the first to come to the mainstream market. The Dragon Range and Phoenix laptop chips are expected to launch in 2023.
The company beat market expectations with revenue of $5.89 billion, a 71 percent increase in sales year-over-year. It said that starting next quarter, it will break out gaming into a separate financial segment showing sales of chips for consoles and graphics cards for PCs as part of a single gaming business. The company will explain it in more detail next month.
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