AMD’s new AI chips have a home in HP’s next Copilot Plus laptop
The HP OmniBook Ultra features an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor and integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics. | Image: HP
HP’s resurrected OmniBook line will soon be getting a performance boost with the new HP OmniBook Ultra, featuring an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor with integrated AMD Radeon 800M graphics, up to 32GB of RAM, and a pair of 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4 USB-C ports. Available starting in August for $1,449.99, the new HP OmniBook Ultra will eventually receive a free software update to make it one of the first Copilot Plus PCs not powered by an ARM-based processor.
The OmniBook branding was originally revived back in May with the HP OmniBook X AI laptop, which, as with most of the Copilot Plus PCs announced at that time, is powered by an ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processor. Its neural processing unit was rated at 45 trillion operations per…