2024 - 2025 will witness the explosion of a series of new technology trends in the laptop market. Among them, the most prominent are the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and thin, light, high-performance designs to meet the increasingly demanding needs of users.
Thin and light reigns supreme: Not just for office laptops
If in the past, thin and light laptops were often only associated with office machines, now this trend has spread to gaming and high-performance laptops. Users now not only require strong performance but also want to own a compact laptop that is easy to carry with them.
ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (2024) is super powerful with a weight of under 1.5kg (source from AMD)
The market has seen the launch of many impressive laptop models, perfectly balancing performance and size. ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (2024) is an example. Weighing less than 1.5kg, this laptop possesses extremely impressive performance with a 12-core, 24-thread AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 processor and a discrete RTX 4060 GPU that meets all work and entertainment needs.
If you need something even thinner and lighter, the ASUS Vivobook S 14 (M5406) will not disappoint you with a weight of only 1.3kg but still has super powerful performance with Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370. Although it does not have a discrete GPU, this laptop still handles many games well thanks to the integrated AMD Radeon™ 890M graphics.
Another extremely impressive gaming laptop model that can also be mentioned is the MSI Stealth A16 AI +. Possessing super powerful performance with AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 combined with RTX 4070 GPU and 16-inch 16:10 screen, the weight of the machine is only 2.1kg, less than 2cm thick.
User experience comes first
In addition to thin and light design, users are also particularly interested in factors such as heat dissipation, battery life and laptop versatility. These factors were previously difficult to go together, a high-performance laptop is difficult to be thin, light, cool and have a long battery life.
However, at present, laptop manufacturers have made efforts to improve heat dissipation efficiency and enhance power by using energy-saving high-performance processors such as AMD Ryzen™ AI, advanced thermal materials, smart fan system design and optimized airflow.
Many software have integrated AI (source from AMD)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is also fully utilized by manufacturers to help improve the user experience. Currently, AI on laptops is fully supported from hardware (processor) to software (Windows and popular software) to help save time and support effective work.
The versatility of laptops is of particular interest. Users increasingly need more from a laptop, such as doing office work, entertainment, and content creation, but still do not accept sacrificing size and weight.
AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Paves the Way for a New Laptop Trend
Playing a key role in paving the way for a new laptop trend are the latest AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 processors. AMD's latest line of laptop processors offers many outstanding advantages such as extremely powerful performance and energy efficiency while ensuring compatibility with millions of existing computer software.
AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 features up to 12 cores and 24 threads
The AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 features up to 12 cores, including 4 high-performance Zen 5 cores and 8 energy-efficient Zen 5c cores. Interestingly, both Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores support hyper-threading for a total of 24 threads.
Combined with 4nm manufacturing, the AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 processor perfectly balances performance and energy efficiency. In addition, this processor also has outstanding integrated graphics that can handle even AAA games at the right settings.
AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series Processors Bring a Range of Advantages to Laptops
AMD is also the pioneer in integrating AI processing cores (NPUs) into processors from 2023 with the Ryzen™ 7000 series. Through many upgrades and improvements, AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 is now one of the most powerful NPU processors on the market with a maximum power of up to 55 TOPS.
AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 processors have a very wide TDP range (15 - 54W), supporting a maximum RAM capacity of up to 256GB, so manufacturers can flexibly use these processors for both ultra-thin and light laptops and high-performance gaming lines.
Overall, the trend of thin, light, high-performance laptops with integrated AI is expected to continue to grow strongly in the coming years. AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 (and its successors) is one of the important factors in that trend.