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New laptops are using old CPUs and that’s a problem
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PCWorld
As I’ve demonstrated, the problem isn’t in actually repurposing old silicon; older chips can be perfectly competent, even now.
Take, for example, the AMD Ryzen 8000 series of mobile processors, launched in Dec. 2023.
Now, it’s 2026, and AMD just launched seven “new” Ryzen 200 parts last month, ranging from the Ryzen 3 205 to the Ryzen 7 253.
Again, Zen 4, the same chip architecture AMD launched in January 2023.
Intel admitted that its older chips have seen increased demand, but it brought back older hardware called out as updates using code names like “Raptor Lake Refresh” and “Arrow Lake Refresh” chips.