AMD plans Ryzen 7040 CPUs with two core types

'Ideal combination of performance and efficiency,' chipmaker says

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AMD plans Ryzen 7040 CPUs with two core types
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AMD plans Ryzen 7040 CPUs with two core types

AMD plans to introduce Ryzen 7040 laptop CPUs that combine two processing core types in a move that the company said is better than Intel’s hybrid architecture approach for PC chips.

AMD on Thursday disclosed that two processors in the Ryzen 7040 series will combine two kinds of high-performance cores: the Zen 4 cores found in existing 7040 CPUs and the Zen 4c cores initially u...

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