AMD Ryzen Z1 and AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processors bring ultimate portability and battery life to handheld PC gaming consoles

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) intro­du­ced the new Ryzen Z1 Series pro­ces­sors, the ulti­ma­te high-per­for­mance pro­ces­sor for hand­held PC gam­ing con­so­les¹. The Ryzen Z1 Series fea­tures two high per­for­mance pro­ces­sors, the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extre­me, both offe­ring indus­try-lea­ding gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces, uncom­pro­mi­sing bat­tery life, and fea­turing AMD RDNA™ 3 archi­tec­tu­re-based gra­phics. AMD is part­ne­ring with Asus to launch the first Ryzen Z1 Series device with the Asus ROG Ally, a pre­mi­um hand­held PC con­so­le, fea­turing up to a Ryzen Z1 Extre­me processor.

“At AMD, we’re con­ti­nu­al­ly advan­cing the next gene­ra­ti­on of gam­ing expe­ri­en­ces, from con­so­les to desk­tops to on-the-go hand­held devices,” said Jason Ban­ta, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Cli­ent OEM at AMD. “Ryzen Z1 pro­ces­sors deli­ver gamers an eli­te gam­ing expe­ri­ence and extre­me por­ta­bi­li­ty in exci­ting gam­ing form factors.”

All-New AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extre­me Processors
Fea­turing up to 8 cores and 16 threads, the Ryzen Z1 Series pro­ces­sors offer breath­ta­king visu­als and, with the effi­ci­en­cy of “Zen 4” archi­tec­tu­re, deli­ver incre­di­ble bat­tery life for a tru­ly por­ta­ble, high-per­for­mance gam­ing expe­ri­ence. With AMD RDNA 3 archi­tec­tu­re-based gra­phics built right in, gamers will have the power to play gra­phi­cal­ly inten­si­ve modern games smooth­ly. Users can opti­mi­ze their game play with AMD Soft­ware: Adre­na­lin Edi­ti­on^™ by uti­li­zing fea­tures inclu­ding AMD Rade­on^™ Super Reso­lu­ti­on², Rade­on Chill, Rade­on Image Shar­pe­ning³, AMD Link⁴ and more. The­se fea­tures can boost per­for­mance with increased frame rates and respon­si­ve­ness, while hel­ping extend bat­tery life.

Every AMD Ryzen Z1 Series pro­ces­sor sup­ports USB4 for fast and easy con­nec­ti­vi­ty for the latest exter­nal sto­rage and dis­play devices, as well as the latest LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X memo­ry stan­dards, deli­ve­ring fast per­for­mance and low laten­cy for more respon­si­ve gaming.

Model	Cores/Threads	Gra­phics	Cache
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme	8/16	12 AMD RDNA 3 com­pu­te units	24 MB
AMD Ryzen Z1	6/12	4 AMD RDNA 3 com­pu­te units	22 MB

Desi­gned for New Form Fac­tors of Computing
With com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty for Win­dows 11 and other ope­ra­ting sys­tems, Ryzen Z1 Series pro­ces­sor-based devices can deli­ver the full breadth of Win­dows 11 appli­ca­ti­ons and games. Gamers will have access to hundreds of PC games through Xbox Game Pass Ulti­ma­te (sold sepa­ra­te­ly) and seam­less access to their game libra­ri­es. Built on x86 archi­tec­tu­re and rea­dy for Win­dows 11, users of Ryzen Z1 Series devices will also have nati­ve access to popu­lar social and pro­duc­ti­vi­ty soft­ware. Ryzen Z1 devices are also equip­ped with smart power manage­ment tech­no­lo­gy which will allow them to game and run the­se appli­ca­ti­ons well with gre­at bat­tery life.

“At Xbox, we put the play­er at the cen­ter by giving them choice on the expe­ri­ence and device that best fit their gam­ing needs,” said Roan­ne Sones, head of Xbox hard­ware. “With Xbox Game Pass Ulti­ma­te we’re brin­ging hundreds of games to new devices, inclu­ding on-the-go gam­ing hand­helds, and are exci­ted to see AMD inves­t­ing in new pro­ces­sors to grow this device category.”

Ryzen Z1 Series Devices Available Soon
AMD Ryzen Z1 pro­ces­sors will be available first in the Asus ROG Ally. More infor­ma­ti­on about the Asus ROG Ally avai­la­bi­li­ty and pri­cing will be announ­ced by Asus on May 11.

“Having a gre­at gam­ing expe­ri­ence doesn’t mean you have to be tied to a chair or a char­ger,” said Shawn Yen, pro­duct manage­ment direc­tor of Gam­ing Busi­ness Unit, Asus. “With the new Ryzen Z1 Series pro­ces­sors, we’re working with AMD to deli­ver the power, visu­als and effi­ci­en­cy nee­ded to enable a supe­ri­or por­ta­ble gam­ing expe­ri­ence — whe­ther you’re tra­ve­ling, com­mu­ting for work or sim­ply want to game untethered.”

Sup­port­ing Resources

• Learn more about AMD Ryzen Z1 Series Pro­ces­sors here
• Learn more about AMD Ryzen Mobi­le Pro­ces­sors here
• Learn more about AMD RDNA 3 Archi­tec­tu­re here
• Beco­me a fan of AMD on Face­book
• Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter 

About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Lin­ke­dIn and Twit­ter pages.

Cau­tio­na­ry Statement
This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts and tech­no­lo­gy inclu­ding the AMD Ryzen™ Z1 Series pro­ces­sors, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als, sub­stra­tes or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; abili­ty to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with expec­ted fea­tures and per­for­mance levels; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty inci­dents inclu­ding IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; poten­ti­al dif­fi­cul­ties in upgrading and ope­ra­ting AMD’s new enter­pri­se resour­ce plan­ning sys­tem; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness and AMD’s abili­ty to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses; impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes, the gua­ran­tees of Xilinx’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments or gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow to make all of its plan­ned R&D or stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

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Cont­act:
Sta­cy MacDiarmid
AMD Public Relations
+1 512–658-2265
Stacy.MacDiarmid@amd.com

Suresh Bhas­ka­ran
AMD Inves­tor Relations
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Suresh.Bhaskaran@amd.com

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¹ Based on test­ing by AMD Labs in April 2023, as mea­su­red on the ASUS ROG Ally with a Ryzen Z1 Extre­me pro­ces­sor at low set­tings, 1080p (ups­ca­led 720p with RSR) vs a com­pa­ra­ble hand­held device curr­ent­ly available in mar­ket in 9 sel­ect games. Results are con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on depen­dent and may vary. DHX‑1.
² Rade­on Super Reso­lu­ti­on works with games that sup­port exclu­si­ve and bor­der­less full-screen modes. AMD Soft­ware: Adre­na­lin Edi­ti­on 22.5.2 or newer is requi­red. GD-197.
³ Rade­on Image Shar­pe­ning is com­pa­ti­ble with DirectX 11/12 and Vul­kan APIs. DirectX 9 sup­port with Rade­on RX 5000 Series GPUs only. Com­pa­ti­ble with Win­dows 10/11. Hard­ware com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty includes Rade­on RX 400 series dis­crete gra­phics and newer dGPUs, Ryzen 2000 Series pro­ces­sors and newer CPUs, inclu­ding hybrid and detacha­ble gra­phics con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons. No mGPU sup­port. GD-156.
⁴ AMD Link requi­res AMD Soft­ware: Adre­na­lin Edi­ti­on 23.2.1 or newer. Game strea­ming on a pho­ne or tablet requi­res Android 7.0 and later or iOS 14 and later, with a high-speed inter­net con­nec­tion. For TV sup­port, Apple TV 4K run­ning tvOS 15.x and later, or Android TV 7.0 and later are requi­red. Strea­ming at 4K requi­res com­pa­ti­ble strea­ming hard­ware. Requi­res AMD Rade­on RX 400 Series dis­crete gra­phics or newer. Gra­phics card must sup­port hard­ware enco­ding for host capa­bi­li­ties to func­tion. Sup­ports Win­dows 10/11. Con­trol­lers must be com­pa­ti­ble with game and head­set, con­sult ven­dor pri­or to purcha­se. GD-159.