AMD Launches Powerful New Laptop Chips
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) made a splash in the laptop market last year with its Ryzen 4000 Mobile line of processors. The chips were built on the company's Zen 2 architecture and Taiwan Semiconductor's 7nm manufacturing process, providing exceptional performance and effectively competing with products from chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC).
Once a significant number of laptops were available, AMD's market share jumped. AMD's chips were in 20.2% of laptops sold in the third quarter of 2020, according to Mercury Research as reported by Tom's Hardware, up from 14.7% for the same period in 2019.
At the CES 2021 technology trade show on Tuesday, AMD announced the next iteration of its Ryzen laptop processors. The Ryzen 5000 Mobile series uses the company's latest Zen 3 architecture, the same architecture used for AMD's most recent desktop chips. The new chips use the same 7nm manufacturing process as their predecessors, so the leap in performance will likely be smaller this time around.
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