HP’s new laptops are equipped with AMD’s Barcelo APUs

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At present, AMD Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors have two cores, namely Cezanne and Lucienne. Cezanne is based on Zen 3 architecture, and Lucienne is based on Zen 2 architecture. Lucienne is not much different from the previous generation Renoir, but it has made a number of improvements, including some modifications to the memory controller, separate core voltage control, stronger integrated graphics, etc. It is mainly used on Ryzen 5000U series APUs.
AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

AMD will release the Zen 3+ architecture APU code-named Rembrandt early next year, which corresponds to the Ryzen 6000 series. It is equipped with a GPU of the RDNA 2 architecture and will support PCIe Gen4 and DDR5 memory. It will be manufactured using a 6nm process and replaced with an FP7 socket. At the same time, AMD will still retain the Ryzen 5000 series mobile processor product line, replace Lucienne with the Zen 3 architecture APU code-named Barcelo, and update the Ryzen 5000U series.

From the previously leaked information, Barcelo and Cezanne have little difference in technical characteristics. They still use the 7nm process, the CPU based on the Zen 3 architecture, and the GPU based on the Vega architecture, and support PCIe Gen3 and DDR4 memory. According to Twitter user @momomo_us, recently, HP has appeared three laptops equipped with Barcelo core APU. The APUs used are Ryzen 7 5825U, Ryzen 5 5625U, and Ryzen 3 5425U, corresponding to 8 cores 16 threads, 6 cores 12 threads, and 4 cores 8 threads

It is speculated that these new laptops are not far from the time to market, which means that the Barcelo core will also make its debut, most likely in early 2022.

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