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AMD launches Ryzen-Vega combo chips for world’s fastest, most power-efficient laptops

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Advanced Micro Devices is cooking up faster laptops by combining Ryzen and Vega, the two ingredients of modern computing, into a single computer chip. AMD is launching two new chips for speedy laptops today that the Sunnyvale, California company says will be the fastest in the world.

The new accelerated processing units (APUs) combine a Ryzen central processing unit (CPU) with a Vega graphics processing unit (GPU) on one piece of silicon. This combo chip is what will make AMD more competitive than rivals like Intel and Nvidia, said Jim Anderson, senior vice president of AMD’s computing and graphics group, in an interview with VentureBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.