AMD’s laptop computer CPU naming schemes are, I can say with some confidence, tough to parse even for these of us that make it our mission in life to maintain monitor of them. A lot so, the truth is, that the corporate has beforehand resorted to handing out a decoder wheel to assist poor {hardware} writers like myself make sense of varied mannequin quantity modifications and code identify variations.
Now a product comparability web page for Asus laptops might have briefly revealed the naming scheme for the upcoming Strix Level cellular processors, and it is a doozy. First noticed by Twitter consumer harukaze5719, the web page confirmed Asus’ Vivobook S 16 OLED line, every that includes a CPU named (drumroll, please): the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170. Simply rolls off the tongue that one, does not it?
Nevertheless, the web page was up to date as we speak to point out the identical laptops as an alternative that includes AMDs earlier Hawk Level cellular chips, the additionally catchily named AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS and AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS. Since then the web page seems to have damaged for product comparisons, though the Vivobook S 16 laptops are nonetheless listed individually that includes the older Hawk Level CPUs.
The initially listed AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 was mentioned to function a 5.1GHz clock pace, 36MB of cache, 12 cores, 24 threads and “AMD Ryzen AI as much as 77 TOPS”.
So, what to make of this then? Nicely, a couple of choices spring to thoughts. Firstly, this might properly have been an unintended reveal of a branding change that resulted in a ticking off from AMD and a fast replace to the web page. It is also potential AMD deliberate on altering the naming scheme, reverted its resolution later, and forgot to maintain Asus within the loop. Or alternatively, an intern at Asus might have turn into very—and I’d say, understandably—confused as to what on earth they have been presupposed to be itemizing from AMDs product line.
Working off the presumption that the primary could also be true, only for a second, the brand new naming scheme would seemingly be a mirrored image of Intel’s Core Extremely line, itself that includes a 3 digit quantity after the primary half of the branding, ie the Intel Core Extremely 9 185H.
Nevertheless, if that is so it appears Intel may need missed a trick in not taking the chance to crowbar the time period “AI” in there someplace, as AMD could be planning right here. On the one hand, that might match with the corporate’s current declarations of 55 years of continued (and considerably doubtful) AI innovation, and on the opposite would make for a possible naming scheme that crunches horribly within the mouth when learn out loud.
What’s in a reputation, eh? On this case a complete lot, it appears, and whereas it stays to be seen whether or not AMD does change up its naming scheme as soon as once more—and if that have been to occur Computex in June can be the most probably time for that to occur—on the very least it will be one thing of a change from a 4 digit quantity variation into one thing that stands an opportunity of being rapidly parsed with out an explainer article, a decoder, and an eventual pressure headache that brings us to our knees.