AMD Strix Halo leak suggests this’ll be an immense CPU for gaming laptops and handhelds, but how expensive might those devices be?

AMD has apparently gone full-on generic tech word salad for its upcoming Strix Halo uber-APU. We give you the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, not a new joint venture with Apple but the top chip in a range of unprecedentedly powerful APUs for laptops and hopefully desktops,

Fortunately, AMD has just such a thing on the horizon. We've written quite a bit about the upcoming Strix Halo already, but thanks to a new leak from the ever-informative "Golden Pig Upgrade Pack", we now have an idea of how AMD could brand these processors.

Golden Pig Upgrade Pack, a well-known leaker, has published preliminary details about the potential configurations of AMD's Ryzen AI Max 300 (codenamed Strix Halo) processors, which are expected to be released in early 2025. In addition, the leaker revealed the official name of these CPUs with an ultra-high-end integrated Radeon GPU.

Over a year ago, we first heard of AMD's plans for Zen 5 mobile flagship CPUs, Strix Halo. These chips are supposed to tower over its existing mobile Strix Point line by offering more of everything, making it essentially a desktop chip shoehorned into a mobile package.

With up to 16 CPU cores and 40 GPU cores, AMD's upcoming Strix Halo APUs are expected to be part of the "Ryzen AI Max" family with new features. With these

AMD takes a note from Apple’s products for its Strix Halo APU naming, featuring Max and Max+ words alongside the mandatory AI tag.