Upcoming MSI Claw variant could ditch Intel chip for Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme

[Redaktion]

A rumour from X says that a future MSI Claw variant might ditch Intel hardware and feature an AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme instead.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Upcoming-MSI-Claw-variant-could-ditch-Intel-chip-for-Ryzen-AI-Z2-Extreme.998283.0.html

[Hotz]

I wouldn't be surprised.

In my opinion the big problem with using Intel (Lunar Lake+) chips is, that they are a separate branch of chips with separate production lines, even different tiles than Arrow Lake, which means more complexity, problems, cost, in delivery and drivers.

While AMD can simply reuse the same old chips from its main branch and repurpose them for anything, including drivers, which is simpler and more cost-effective in any case.

I was never a fan of Intel doing the Lunar Lake, Panther Lake thing - especially since it has been shown that the current mobile Arrow Lake iGPUs can perform very well despite only having Alchemist+ architecture (instead of Battlemage in Lunar Lake).

[Peak]

Lunar Lake's successor, Panther Lake

I would not call Panther Lake a direct successor even if that's what Intel's own internal roadmaps state. One has on package memory while the other does not. That's quite a bit different. IMO, there is no real successor to Lunar Lake. Seems like a one off or one time only product category / family.