I'm not sure which I'm most excited about, the idea of a whole new kind of Framework machine, or the fact the company is actually going to make available a Strix Halo motherboard for us to tinker with. On the one hand, a small form factor Framework Desktop is a cute idea, though it is bringing the upgradeable, repairable ethos of its Framework 13 laptops to an area that admittedly is already pretty well served on that front.
But on the other… Strix Halo! We've been super-excited about this AMD-built beast of an APU prospect. It's a proper Zen 4 chiplet processor, with up to 16 cores and up to 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units (CUs). It's that last point that has our PC gaming hearts a-flutter because the Radeon 8060S is an integrated GPU beyond our wildest dreams.
