The Ryzen 8000-series CPUs are shaping up to redefine both handhelds and gaming laptops, and the latest rumours suggest a mix of both chiplet, full-fat Zen 5, and Zen 5c cores going into them. That, and there's that monstrous integrated graphics core which is promising to be the gaming laptop chip we've been waiting for.
But as much as the Steam Deck is lauded as the device that made handheld gaming PCs a genuine 'thing', it's AMD's continued APU passion projects that have helped them evolve. The ROG Ally wouldn't have been possible without AMD's Z1 Extreme APU, and the raft of Ryzen 7 7840U-based handhelds following would have struggled without the exceptional red team silicon.
