AMD’S KRAKEN POINT
New Zen 5 mobile aims at Lunar Lake
AMD’S RYZEN AI 300
series chip appeared this summer to ride the wave of AI PCs, although Microsoft has only just got round to adding them to its CoPilot+ initiative. AMD started at the high-end, and the resulting laptops are expensive $1,000-plus affairs. To get at the bulk of the market, AMD needs something more affordable. Enter Kraken Point, an eight-core chip, with four full-fat Zen 5 cores, and four smaller Zen 5c ones. This means systems should dip well into three figures, where the mass market is. It’ll also be a competitor for Intel’s Lunar Lake and a candidate for handhelds (Steam Deck 2?).