AMD today announced its Ryzen PRO 7040 line of processors for the all-important commercial notebook segment. A commercial notebook is a class of notebook that are purchased in large quantities by businesses or government organizations, to be handed out to their employees. The key distinction from consumer notebooks is their in-built security and remote-management features that let the organization remotely handle user credentials, securely store company data, and remotely deploy software updates. Most importantly, the organization maintains ownership over the device and can remotely de-activate it at whim. This is a particularly important market segment for both AMD and Intel (which sells 13th Gen Core vPro processors). AMD's launch today includes Ryzen PRO 7040 series mobile processors for both the 15 W to 28 W ultraportable, and 35 W to 55 W thin-and-light (mainstream) commercial notebook form-factors.

At the heart of the Ryzen PRO 7040 series processors is the 4 nm "Phoenix" silicon, which combines the "Zen 4" microarchitecture for the CPU, with RDNA3 graphics architecture for the iGPU, and introduces the Ryzen AI on-die accelerator based on the Xilinx-designed XDNA architecture, to the commercial notebook segment. The silicon physically features an 8-core/16-thread "Zen 4" CPU, with several processor models boosting to the 5.00 GHz-mark. Each core has 1 MB of dedicated L2 cache, and the eight cores share a 16 MB L3 cache. The iGPU meets full DirectX 12 Ultimate logo requirements, and features 12 RDNA3 compute units, which work out to 768 dual issue-rate stream processors, 24 AI Accelerators (intrinsic to RDNA3 and not related to Ryzen AI); and 12 Ray Accelerators, besides 48 TMUs and industry-leading 32 ROPs. AMD is backing the iGPU on these processors with AMD Software PRO (the same class of drivers as Radeon PRO GPUs), which come with superior support from AMD, and special packages for remote deployment by organizations.

Today, AMD announced the latest additions to its PRO processor lineup: 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen PRO mobile processors with Radeon Vega Graphics and AMD Athlon PRO mobile processors with Radeon Vega Graphics. Providing commercial notebook users with power-efficient performance, state-of-the-art security features, and commercial-grade reliability and manageability, these new processors enable global PC manufacturers to create a wide range of business systems, from premium professional notebooks to everyday productivity notebooks. Initial commercial systems from HP and Lenovo are expected this quarter with other OEMs and further platform updates anticipated later in 2019.

"Modern PC users expect the experience between professional and personal to be imperceptible, and business notebook users want to utilize the latest modern features including 3D modeling, video editing, multi-display setups while multitasking securely, to get more done," said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, Client Compute, AMD. "With AMD Ryzen PRO and Athlon PRO mobile processors, AMD delivers the right performance, features, and choice to OEMs and commercial users, combined with the productivity, protection, and professional features needed to ensure seamless deployment throughout an organization."