AMD officially launched its latest Ryzen 8040U Series CPUs for the mobile space. The lineup comprises nine SKUs, comprising five 8040HS and four 8040U SKUs.
The new 8040 Series CPUs, also referred to as Hawk Point, are a variation of AMD’s Phoenix lineup specific to the chipmaker’s thin and light processor lineup. Of course, it goes without saying that these processors are based off the Zen4 architecture.
What separates the new 8040 Series from the Ryzen 7040 Series is the up-to-date integrate XDNA AI NPU found on select series models. These models up to 1.6x more AI processing performance, compared to prior Ryzen models. Within the Ryzen 8040HS segment, the top-tier model of the lineup is the Ryzen 9 8945HS, followed by the Ryzen 7 8845HS and 8840HS, and then the Ryzen 5 8645HS and 8640HS.
As for the 8040U lineup, there’s the Ryzen 7 8840U, followed by the Ryzen 5 8640U and 8540U, and then the Ryzen 3 8440U.
In addition to the new Ryzenm 8040 Series, AMD is also making its Ryzen AI Software more widely available to developers that are looking to start building and deploying their own machine learning models from frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, which can be run on select Ryzen AI-powered laptops. Further, Developers are also given early access support for Automatic Speech Recognition models like Whisper and Large Language Models (LLM) like OPT and Llama-2 to build natural language speech interfaces for their applications and unlock other Natural Language Processing features such as document summarization and email assistance.
You can expect AMD’s Ryzen 8040 Series mobile processor to begin appearing on the market next year, although when exactly has still yet to be announced.
(Source: AMD)
