No other manufacturer is embracing mobile AMD Ryzen as fast or as hard as Asus

[Redaktion]

Asus is proving singlehandedly that AMD can power flagship laptops of all sizes from the small ROG Flow X13 to the large Strix Scar 17 G733. It's time for other manufacturers to stop relegating Ryzen CPUs to mid-range or lower models and start putting them on their flagship products.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/No-other-manufacturer-is-embracing-mobile-AMD-Ryzen-as-fast-or-as-hard-as-Asus.541116.0.html

[GMF]

and no other manufacture is so-badly suffered by AMD CPU shortage as ASUS

[Cooe]

... This REALLY shouldn't surprise anyone. I mean this has been going on for YEARS at this point.

ASUS was literally the ONLY major OEM to make a "high-ish end" "Picasso" (12nm 4c/8t Zen+ APU) based gaming laptop in the "Zephyrus GA502", which was pretty freaking great tbh! And then only a year after that ASUS was AMD's premiere launch partner for the 7nm 8c/16t Zen 2 based "Renoir" (aka Ryzen Mobile 4000) launch.

And not only was the 2020 Zephyrus G14 THE undisputed flagship Renoir laptop, but ASUS was SOOOOO confident in the chip that they made a 6 month exclusivity deal w/ AMD for the super binned 35W Ryzen 4000 "HS" parts (artificially making the G14 look even BETTER vs its competition).

AMD sticking with ASUS as their premiere mobile OEM partner for their Zen 3 based Cézanne platform (aka "Ryzen Mobile 5000") shouldn't surprise ANYONE at this point. It's been that way for literally YEARS by now.

[Cooe]

and no other manufacture is so-badly suffered by AMD CPU shortage as ASUS

Ryzen shortages in laptops are basically a non-issue compared to the Ryzen 9 desktop parts, as AMD is HEAVILY prioritizing Cézanne (Ryzen Mobile 5000) & EPYC/Threadripper over Vermeer (Ryzen 5000 desktop).

Yeah, stock is more limited for laptop models w/ Ryzen Mobile 5000 CPU's than for roughly equivalent Intel machines, but anyone willing to spend just a bit of time actively looking will be able to find the machine they want without TOO much hassle.

(Unlike say a 16c/32t Ryzen 9 5950X desktop CPU, where you'll legitimately have better luck winning a date w/ a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover model than finding one of those in stock anytime soon...)

[Muhammad Anhar]

and no other manufacture is so-badly suffered by AMD CPU shortage as ASUS

Why AMD chip shortage concerns you?

[xpclient]

Well Tiger Lake H45 has almost caught up in gaming laptops but for thin and light laptops AMD is ahead due to twice the number of cores. We need far more AMD and less Intel. Everyone is shipping Tiger Lake UP3 or UP4 instead of CPUs like Ryzen 7 5800U.

[fmyhr]

Great job, Asus! Nice to see ONE mfg not stuck in Wintel gravy train rut.

Personal wish: that Asus makes a business-class notebook with Ryzen Pro that enables ECC memory and DASH remote management. Very tired of having ONLY crazy-expensive Xeon laptops as the only such option.

[Dorby]

Well it's not like other OEMs don't want to use Ryzen, they've been lining up and AMD's the one who is giving out the vouchers. Asus was the first to get in line so they got 'lucky', and then hit the supply shortage.

Any OEM with an established business lineup like Lenovo, Dell and HP are tied to long-term contracts with Intel, and some gaming brands like MSI too. They can't "fully embrace" Ryzen even if they wanted to.