Yesterday, a major leak outed AMD's alleged forthcoming refresh of "Strix Halo" silicon. According to VideoCardz's anonymous industry contacts, Team Red's codename for this new mobile processor family is "Gorgon Halo." A specific "Ryzen AI Max+ 495" SKU was brought up as an example; highlighted as a potential range-topper and successor to the current-gen Ryzen AI Max+ 395 model. Almost a day later, an HKEPC report has listed the aforementioned top ""Gorgon Halo" option, and four other options. The Hong Kong-based publication understands that the five identified "Ryzen AI MAX 400" products will utilize familiar architectures: Zen 5 for CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 for integrated graphics solutions (Radeon 8060S or 8050S), and XDNA 2 for the NPU aspect.

Naturally, these technologies form the basis of readily available "Strix Halo" APUs. HKEPC claims that the freshly-leaked "half-generation upgrade" will be the result of "enhanced chip quality." Elaborating further they propose that "Gorgon Halo" models will maintain the same TDPs as preceding equivalents, but with clock speeds increased—most notably improving multicore performance. A close-up shot of a possible engineering sample provides the "100-000002127" serial code. This OPN seems to refer to "Gorgon Halo's" least potent member—Ryzen AI Max 485. The HKEPC article anticipates a launch happening around October of this year.
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