The Ryzen 8000U/H/HS processors may disappoint with the lack of any significant improvements, but these are not all the new products that AMD is preparing for the 2024 model year. The Strix Point line will be much more interesting.

According to AMD’s slides, this line will also be released next year. It is not yet clear under what name, but based on the principle of naming the company’s processors, it should be Ryzen 8050, where the eight will indicate 2024, and the five will represent the Zen 5 architecture.

Yes, these will be mobile processors based on the new Zen 5 architecture, which should already make them much faster than current APUs. In addition, the iGPU of such processors will be built on the RDNA 3+ (or RDNA 3.5) architecture, but it is not yet clear what improvements it will bring.

If the Ryzen 8000U/H/HS has increased performance by 60% relative to the Ryzen 7000U/H/HS, then the Strix Point will be three times faster.

According to early leaks, Strix Point, unlike the Ryzen 7040 and Ryzen 8040, will have up to 12 processor cores, and the Strix Halo line will offer up to 16 cores, but these will be APUs of a completely different level. Also, Strix Point processors were previously credited with iGPUs with 1024 stream processors versus 768 for the Radeon 780M. Strix Halo will supposedly have 2560 stream processors, which is more than a number of Radeon desktop video cards.

AMD will present new Ryzen 8000 mobile processors today as part of the Advance AI event. Materials from the presentation have already appeared on the Internet, so the new products are fully revealed to us.

The new generation is called Hawk Point and, unfortunately, it is almost no different from the Ryzen 7040 line. In fact, models with the corresponding names, for example, Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 7 7840HS, either differ slightly in frequencies or do not differ at all in basic parameters . There are the same Zen 4 processor cores, the same iGPU based on the RDNA 3 architecture, the same number of cores, cache memory, and so on.

In fact, the only update worth mentioning is the new Ryzen AI core for working with artificial intelligence. If the Ryzen 7000 has such a unit with a performance of 10 TOPS, then the Ryzen 8000 has 16 TOPS. The increase is very large, but the problem is that so far there is absolutely no place to use it.

Thus, the transition from Ryzen 7000U/H/HS to Ryzen 8000U/H/HS can be called one of the most minor and insignificant in all recent years from AMD.

It remains to be added that laptops with new APUs will hit the market in the next quarter.

Microsoft has decided to slightly extend the life of the Windows 10 operating system for corporate and ordinary users. Although the end of support date for the OS will not change, Microsoft just announced that it will offer extended security updates for Windows 10 after October 14, 2025.

This will allow those who are unable to upgrade to Windows 11 or purchase a new device running Windows 11 to continue using the operating system safely.

The Extended Security Updates program requires a one-year subscription with an option to renew for three years. It is worth keeping in mind that the program only covers critical security updates and will not bring new features. Prices have not yet been announced.

Unlike the Windows 7 program, Microsoft is offering the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program for regular consumers, not just businesses, companies, and organizations.