AMD brings Ryzen and Athlon to Chromebooks

AMD on Tuesday announced a series of Chromebook mobile processors that are based on optimized Ryzen hardware and VEGA graphics. The CPUs are based on 14nm and 12nm process nodes and will give the popular entry-level laptop an increase in speed and graphics capabilities.

The mobile CPUS will feature between two and four cores, up to eight threads and will include Radeon Vega graphics.

It is the first time that AMD uses Ryzen processors in Chromebooks.

For premium Chromebooks, the Ryzen 3 3250C, Ryzen 5 3500C, and Ryzen 7 3700C quad-core will run at up to 4.0 GHz. AMD says the 3700C chip will bring speed improvements of up to 250 percent to graphics tasks compared to graphics levels. older AMD Chromebook performance. Performance for multitasking and web performance, they say, will be double previous levels.

AMD expects to enter three key markets for Chromebooks: education, business and consumer. He has a particular eye on the education market, where laptop sales are on the rise as schools increasingly turn to remote computing options in the wake of coronavirus restrictions on school learning.

Chromebooks based on the AMD Ryzen processor and Athlon processor “deliver the combined CPU, graphics and overall performance needed to stay productive and overcome the high demands of distance learning and remote work,” AMD said in a blog. posted on Tuesday.

AMD says its CPUs are used in one in five Chromebooks. With higher performance and lower cost of the new chip line, AMD’s sales are expected to increase even further.

Asus, Lenovo, Acer, HP, and other Chromebook makers are expected to announce models featuring the new CPUs before the end of the year.

The dual-core AMD Athlon Silver 3050C and Gold 3150C are intended for mid-range laptops.

Chromebooks have generally been the laptop of choice for entry-level tasks that involve web browsing, word processing, and limited graphics activity. The performance increases offered in the new AMD lineup mean that users can now include programs with more sophisticated graphics demands, such as video conferencing, as well as other processor-intensive tasks.

The 3000 C series contains basically the same architecture used in the 3000 U series notebook processors that first appeared last year. The only difference is that the new line is based on the 12nm and 14nm Zen Plus architecture, developed in 2017, rather than the newer processors that use the more elegant 7nm microarchitecture, which offers a bit more speed and consumes less. Energy.

AMD’s A6 and A4 processor Chromebooks introduced in 2019 received mixed reviews. They were priced right but offered a lukewarm performance. The new line offers better clock speeds, higher cache and greatly improved graphics capabilities that can generate the enthusiastic reception that AMD needs to get an edge over its competitors, including Intel and NVIDIA.

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