AMD launched its Ryzen 7000 family of mobile processors at CES 2023 with a family spread across four different processor architectures--and with a new AI effort, Radeon XDNA, ushering in a future driven by artificial intelligence. Recall last September when AMD introduced its new processor naming scheme. Now, that formula is more important than ever to decode the five Ryzen 7000 Mobile series--the Ryzen 7045, Ryzen 7040, Ryzen 7035, Ryzen 7030, and Ryzen 7020--and the Zen 4, Zen 3, Zen 3, and Zen 2 processor architectures spread between them. AMD also refers to them by their platform, too: the U-series chips for thin-and-light notebooks between 15 and 28 watts, the Ryzen HS series for 35W to 45W thin enthusiast notebooks, and the Ryzen HX series for 55W ultra enthusiast notebooks. AMD's new mobile offerings are headlined by "Dragon Range," the "extreme laptop gaming CPU" that AMD actually pre-announced last year.

AMD is bringing out some big guns to take on Intel's powerful HX laptop CPUs, and once again, they're also called "HX." The company's new Ryzen 9 7945HX processor is its most premium mobile offering, with 16 cores and 32 threads, as well as speeds between 2.5GHz and 5.4GHz. It's joined by an array of other Ryzen 7000 CPUs unveiled at CES (AMD also announced low-end chipsin September), which will power everything from budget laptops to extreme gaming and creator machines. There will be a Ryzen laptop chip for practically every need. It makes sense for AMD to focus even more on its HX chips this year.

AMD has confirmed that their laboratory has successfully run the company's first Ryzen "Phoenix" CPU equipped with Xilinx AI acceleration engine, which is also AMD's first application after acquiring Xilinx. The president of AMD's Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group confirmed at the AI Hardware Summit that they have next-generation Ryzen CPUs running in the lab, equipped with Xilinx's AI acceleration engine. This also confirms that the AMD Phoenix Point CPUs have been officially taped out, but there is still a long way to go before the new products go on sale, and they still need to go through a rigorous verification process in the lab. Unsurprisingly, AMD is expected to show off its Phoenix Point CPUs for mobile platforms at CES 2023, under the new naming scheme the company recently announced. That said, the Phoenix Point APUs will arrive as the AMD Ryzen 7000 mobile processor family.