The Dragon Range and Phoenix Point series of high-spec APU processing chips have just been shown by several leading laptop maker brands, but recently, it seems that AMD is already in the process of developing newer processing chips.
This latest APU is called Strix Point, and its existence was known earlier this month, but details about it are only known through recently leaked information. Moore's Law is Dead has recently revealed the details of this Strix Point APU chip, which comes with brand new components.
The Strix Point APU is now seen to be present with the use of an AM5 processing chip built using the 4nm process and will be combined with a selection of RDNA2 graphics chips up to RDNA3.5 which will also be introduced later.
In this series of processing chips, models such as Hawk Point, Strix Point and Strix Halo are shown which will be developed for different purposes. Starting with Hawk Point, these APUs come with 15W to 45W power consumption for thin and light laptops. Strix Point is also seen to be present with the same electric power consumption, but is expected to present with more powerful performance.
Strix Halo is the most powerful series of processing chips in the series, which is expected to come with options of up to 16 cores and 32 threads of power. It is expected that this processing chip will come with 25 percent more powerful performance compared to the Dragon Range APU, and have graphics capabilities comparable to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile graphics card.
In the meantime, with this Strix Point APU series, AMD seems to want to compete with the Apple Silicon processing chip which is now seen as the most efficient laptop processing chip on the market right now.
AMD is not expected to introduce this new processing chip so quickly, especially when the Dragon Range APU series has not yet shown widespread use. However, AMD is likely to introduce this processing chip early next year, and will start to be seen in laptop devices around the middle of the year.