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Christian Guyton

REVEALED: Amd ryzen z1 handheld gaming chips lay down gauntlet for the nintendo switch 2 | Rare Historical Photos

A person throwing a Nintendo Switch out of a car window.

AMD has announced a new line of processors built from the ground up to power handheld consoles: the Ryzen Z1 series. Billed as ‘the ultimate high-performance processor for handheld PC gaming consoles’, the Z1 and Z1 Extreme will be system-on-a-chip (SoC) APUs incorporating both AMD’s Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 graphics architecture.

Why is this exciting? Well, for starters, these chips will be with us very soon, as AMD is partnering with Asus to deliver the first Z1 handheld: the previously-announced Asus ROG Ally.

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