AMD's 'Mendocino' Chip Will Bring 10-Hour Battery Life To Cheap Laptops
At Computex 2022, AMD announced its new 'Mendocino' mobile APUs aimed at mainstream Windows laptops and Chromebooks. AMD has been on a launching spree this year, having announced its Ryzen 6000 'Rembrandt' mobile processors at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show as part of its plans to compete against Intel's Alder Lake chips and Apple's M1 line of ARM-based processors. The chips come with the new Zen 3+ CPU architecture and RDNA 2 integrated graphics built on TSMC's 6nm node.
The company also showcased its Ryzen 7000 desktop processors at the event in Taiwan and is expected to release its 'Dragon Range' chips for enthusiast gaming laptops and 'Phoenix' for thin and light gaming notebooks next year. In addition to its CPU and APU lineups, AMD is expected to launch its new RDNA 3 GPUs later this year as successors to the current-gen Radeon RX 6000-series cards that were released in late 2020. The company also recently expanded its RX 6000 family with the launch of the 6950 XT, 6750 XT and 6650 XT earlier this month.
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The Mendocino APUs come with four Zen 2 cores and RDNA 2 graphics and are expected to power entry-level and mid-range laptops. They are anticipated to replace AMD's Ryzen C-class processors, including the 3000C 'Picasso' and 'Dali' chips. According to AMD's announcement, Mendocino will support LPDDR5 memory, but it isn't immediately clear whether it will be dual-channel (64-bit) or quad-channel (128-bit) memory bus. While the latter would have been the default at the higher-end of the spectrum, it isn't clear whether that will be the case as Mendocino is squarely targeted at the affordable segment.
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