Acer has announced that its Swift series of laptops will feature models with new AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series laptop processors, beginning in Q3 2024.
The new models will also receive a free update to Copilot+ PC experiences when it is available.
“AI is continuing to reshape our customers’ expectations for PCs across gaming, content creation, professional and everyday use,” said Jerry Kao, COO, Acer Inc. “With AMD, we are delivering more AI-enabled experiences to our customers with unprecedented power and performance. In the coming months, we are excited to announce new systems powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors.”
“We’re excited to partner with Acer across their thin-and-light next generation AI PCs.” said Jack Huynh, senior vice president and GM, Computing and Graphics Group at AMD. “We are creating a new category of AI PCs with Acer featuring our 3rd generation AMD Ryzen AI processors with the world’s most powerful NPU with 50 TOPS, the world’s fastest APU with next-gen Zen 5 architecture, and the world’s best graphics for gaming.”
Based on the new high-performance “Zen 5” architecture, the AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors with up to 12 high-performance cores and 24 threads. As part of AMD Ryzen™ AI, the new processors leverage new AMD XDNA™ 2 technology to provide up to 50+ NPU TOPS of AI processing performance.
The AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series processors are optimized for lower power consumption and extended battery life even on heavy computing workloads, plus an offering of up to 36 MB cache. Built-in AMD Radeon™ 800M graphics also provide high-resolution display support and accelerated encoding with or without a discrete graphic card.
For more information on the Acer Swift series laptop features that will be coming in the future, check out the official Acer website.