Let me qualify this that I am generally very negative towards Intel. I think they are an embarrassingly horribly run company. But even incompetence will wane wh

Let me qualify this that I am generally very negative towards Intel. I think they are an embarrassingly horribly run company. But even incompetence will wane when defending their cash cows, and if AMD wants to come at Intel, they need to do a better job. 1) Intel appears on most graphs to be edging out AMD on performance and efficiency. With a worse process technology. That's not good. 2) integrated graphics ... well, ok yes, but "gaming laptops" are very much a niche thing. Laptops are fundamentally about business applications. 3) Does it have USB-C in the supplied laptops? An HDMI 2.0+ port? Will the CPU and chipsets actually be used by major suppliers who have some investment in better form factors? This has historically been a "no", and unfortunately, the CPU results show that there really isn't any reason for the major centralized OEMs and suppliers to throw a lot at AMD, except as a minor thorn in Intel's side. The AWS networking comment is a side-example of AMD's lack of focus on chipsets and total system integration. I am concerned that AMD will repeat the Netburst-era mistake and rest on their laurels. In your second article, there is a very interesting thing: a laptop used in the graphics just has "AMD" on it. That tells me it isn't an actually available laptop. Like so many AMD mobile offerings, they drop benchmarks that basically say "hey, we are here! don't forget about us in mobile" but the OEMs largely ignore them. The video HDMI ports are among the most frustrating in AMD-powered actual hardware. You have AMD chips with top sophistication in the video hardware, and the video port standards are still lagging behind desktop by years. Maybe the handled this, but it was dumbfounding last time I looked for an AMD laptop based on their hype. It was clear that no matter the CPU AMD had, a great deal was lost in translation once the motherboard designs were made. Just wasted potential. There isn't anything in this article that makes me think "wow there will be a significantly competitive and attractive laptop that features these chips". I honestly hope I'm wrong. I'll be buying a new laptop soon...