Again in June, following Computex 2024, Neowin seen that AMD had certainly ended assist for Home windows 10 when it comes to driver assist like for chipsets for upcoming AI chips. Nevertheless, as an artifact of that maybe, the corporate additionally lists its very talked-about Ryzen 3 7320U Mendocino laptop computer APU as being solely supported on Home windows 11.

It says:

*OS Assist

Home windows 11 – 64-Bit Version , Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

I noticed it a number of days in the past after I was protecting an HP laptop computer deal powered by this APU. Whereas the low cost ran out quickly after we revealed the article, I made a decision to research what was occurring.

This isn’t the case with any of the AMD APUs or CPUs belonging to the 7000 sequence. I additionally checked assist on newer Ryzen 8000 sequence elements and it’s the similar factor. Each different SKU appropriately lists Home windows 10 beneath OS assist.

They are saying:

*OS Assist

Home windows 11 – 64-Bit Version , Home windows 10 – 64-Bit Version , RHEL x86 64-Bit , Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Nevertheless, after I checked one other Mendocino-based SKU, the Ryzen 5 7520U, it additionally lists Home windows 10 as unsupported, identical to its extra widespread sibling 7320U. I went again and confirmed that this has in actual fact all the time been the case.

It’s noteworthy right here that the CPU portion of Mendocino APU relies on Zen 2 although it’s a part of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 sequence lineup. Talking of which, AMD made its cellular processor lineup very complicated and makes an attempt at making it much less complicated with stickers haven’t been nice.

And what makes this much more complicated is the truth that AMD’s chipset driver launch notes, even on the newest model on the time of writing, says that it helps Ryzen 7000 cellular since there’s a “Sure” when it comes to assist for each Home windows 10 and Home windows 11 “AMD Ryzen™ 7000 Sequence Cell Processors”.

I checked out earlier Zen 2-based cellular chips just like the Ryzen 5 4500U and these too are supported by the newest chipset driver. Sadly, AMD now not lists the specs of the 4500U on its official web site the place we will undergo the OS assist record to cross-check the matter.

Regardless although, Zen 2 actually shouldn’t have any points working Home windows 10 in any respect since Microsoft itself lists the 7320U and 7520U processors in its official supported record of CPUs.