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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Aaron Klotz

AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off

Ryzen CPU.

The spotlight might be on AMD's latest Ryzen AI 300 series processors, but the CPU manufacturer is still not finished adding more SKUs to its older Ryzen 8000 series product stack. Golden Pig, a reputable hardware leaker, on the Weibo forums, leaked that AMD is planning to release a new Ryzen 7 8845HS variant in the near future with a disabled XDNA NPU, dubbed the Ryzen 7 8745HS.

This isn't the first time AMD has turned off its neural processing unit. The manufacturer's Ryzen 3 and some of its Ryzen 5 desktop and mobile chips lack NPU capabilities for product segmentation. However, the introduction of AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS will be the first time this type of product segmentation occurs at the higher end of AMD's product stack.

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