For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system

Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 9 AI 300 series is a new chip and a new naming scheme. AMD

Less than two years ago, AMD announced that it was overhauling its numbering scheme for laptop processors. Each digit in its four-digit CPU model numbers picked up a new meaning which, with the help of a detailed reference sheet, promised to inform buyers of exactly what it was they were buying.

One potential issue with this, as we pointed out at the time, was that this allowed AMD to change over the first and most important of those four digits every single year

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