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AMD didn’t need to announce the Ryzen 7840U because these companies just did.

Aokzoe is now claiming to have the “world’s first AMD Ryzen 7840U handheld.” Ayaneo is naming it too.

AMD would rather you pay attention to the Z1 Extreme, a chip that’s apparently identical save “entirely new power ranges and optimize[d] voltage curves specifically for this use case” that “should not be trivialized,” AMD’s Don Woligroski tells The Verge. Those sound important, but will AMD really not share them with anyone but Asus?

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