AMD Ryzen 7040U CPUs bring cutting-edge performance to ultraportable laptops

AMD announced four new processors within its Ryzen Mobile 7040 series, taking more steps toward what AMD believes will eventually be a future full of artificial intelligence-enhanced PCs powered by its XDNA AI architecture. Two of these new chips include Ryzen AI, hardware AI logic supported by new instructions. That said, you'll want to buy laptops based upon new chips for what they can deliver now, more than for their potential for AI in the future. And AMD's latest laptop processors look to pack plenty of punch. These new 7040U processors wield not only AMD's latest Zen 4 compute cores, but also powerful integrated Radeon graphics based on the same RDNA 3 architecture found in the latest and greatest Radeon graphics cards.