It is reported that the AMD Ryzen 7040 series "Phoenix" processors will go on sale at the end of this month / early next month.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu and OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com April 17, whistleblower @ Golden Pig upgrade package said that the AMD Ryzen 7040 series processor code-named Phoenix will be released at the end of this month / early next month. Notebooks with Ruilong 7040HS are expected to be available by the end of April and models with 7840U processors early next month.

CTOnews.com popular science: AMD Phoenix is a new generation of APU with Zen4 and RDNA3 architecture, suitable for notebook computers, and is designed to replace the Ryzen 6000 series codenamed Rembrandt.

In fact, AMD first unveiled the processor on CES in early January. The initial release date was the Ruilong 7045HX series in February and the Ruilong 7040HS series in March, but the Ruilong 7045HX game didn't go on sale until the end of March, and there is only one ROG 7 Plus series. Laptops with Intel Raptor Lake processors, by contrast, have been on the market for two months.

It is worth mentioning that the AMD generation originally completely replaced the H series with the HS series, but also customized the Ruilong 7040H series for the mainland market, the specifications are exactly the same as the Ruilong 7040HS series.