From PC World: Whether it’s tariffs or some other reason, CPU makers seem to be pushing downward into cheaper alternatives, expanding their available market. The most recent example is AMD’s latest addition: the Ryzen AI 5 330, its most entry-level option in the Ryzen AI 300 family designed for Copilot+ laptops.
AMD’s Ryzen AI 5 330 includes 4 cores and 8 threads, running from 2.0 GHz on up to a turbo clock of 4.5GHz.
AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 series (Strix Point) was launched in June of 2024, with just a pair of processors: the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 as well as the Ryzen AI 9 365. (A third part, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, launched in July 2025 with identical specs save for a slightly improved NPU.) AMD added new lower-end Ryzens in January, including the Ryzen AI 7 350 (8 cores/16 threads, 5.0GHz turbo) and the Ryzen AI 5 340 (6 cores/12 threads, 4.8GHz turbo).
Since all of these chips are designed for notebooks, AMD isn’t revealing how much it will charge for each chip. Although AMD is announcing the Ryzen AI 5 330 now, it will take a little while before laptops using it come to market. “Systems powered by the Ryzen AI 5 330 processor will be available from OEMs, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI and arriving in market in the coming months,” AMD said in a note to reporters.
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