AMD revives 7-year-old chip designs for budget laptops (opens in new tab)

AMD has resuscitated three mobile chips from 2019 and 2020 to ship to PC makers asking for cheaper processors for budget PCs, the company confirmed. AMD is now offering the AMD Ryzen 3 3100U and the the Ryzen 5 3501U, based on the Zen+ (Ryzen 3000 Mobile / Picasso) architecture it launched in 2019. It also added the Ryzen 4700LE, built on the Zen 2 (Ryzen 4000 / Renoir) architecture introduced in 2020. The reason is a simple one: not all customers can afford a new PC. “The Ryzen 3100U and Ryz...