The ASUS Zenbook S 16 AMD Ryzen AI 9 is on another level of laptops, and this is one I'd consider not sending back to ASUS. Though I really have no choice in that matter, LOL.

With up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, AMD's upcoming Strix Halo APUs are expected to be part of the "Ryzen AI Max" family with new features. With these

According to a Weibo post by the ever leaky Golden Pig Upgrade Pack account, we can initially expect three models of AMD's new high-performance APU. The aforementioned AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 rocks 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3.5 spec GPU compute units.

Fortunately, AMD has just such a thing on the horizon. We've written quite a bit about the upcoming Strix Halo already, but thanks to a new leak from the ever-informative "Golden Pig Upgrade Pack", we now have an idea of how AMD could brand these processors.

The AMD Strix Halo specs and names have apparently just been leaked, with integrated Radeon GPUs that could change gaming laptops forever.

Golden Pig Upgrade Pack, a well-known leaker, has published preliminary details about the potential configurations of AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300 (codenamed Strix Halo) processors, which are expected to be released in early 2025. In addition, the leaker revealed the official name of these CPUs with an ultra-high-end integrated Radeon GPU.

Over a year ago, we first heard of AMD's plans for Zen 5 mobile flagship CPUs, Strix Halo. These chips are supposed to tower over its existing mobile Strix Point line by offering more of everything, making it essentially a desktop chip shoehorned into a mobile package.