Promises to upend the laptop landscape. In the last three years, AMD has made significant progress with its Zen architecture. Consistently hitting its ambitious roadmap while rival Intel is mired with advanced manufacturing problems, there's very good reason to consider Ryzen for the desktop and Epyc for the datacentre. Performance is compelling and accelerating while value continues to be a cornerstone of AMD's philosophy.

It's easy to see why AMD has made meaningful incursions into desktop and server. Prioritising these two facets of computing has left the third, laptops, a little ways behind. The latest batch still uses the same overarching Zen architecture as its segment counterparts, but they're not on the same leading-edge process. In contrast, Intel, which holds the lion's share of the mobile x86 market, is empowering its latest laptop silicon with its best manufacturing.