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Makes sense if true. Laptop market looks like shit rn from a profit perspective, if anything has to get delayed or deprioritized, a high end laptop might be it.
If AMD can make an SoC suitable for entry and mid-range gaming laptops with no dGPU required, that could put a sizeable dent in sales of NVIDIA's smaller GPUs and potentially be more profitable for laptop OEMs (not having to pay Intel tax + NVIDIA tax).
In theory, yes. In practice, a high end APU is going to be competing with low end and prior generation/refresh CPUs/GPUs. Once those discounts are figured in, the value proposition in straight performance/$ is shot.
They would be MacBook Pro fighters that could also do gaming at high energy efficiency, but we're not close to that being a go-to for any price segment if performance is paramount. Those chips will be expensive and the laptops with them will stay expensive for quite a while.
Asus TUF A15 is $750 rn. There's usually a totally usable gaming laptop for $800 and a decent midrange one for $1100-1200.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-tuf-gaming-a16-16-165hz-gaming-laptop-fhd-amd-ryzen-7-7735hs-with-16gb-ddr5-memory-radeon-rx7600s-512gb-pcie-ssd-off-black/6535499.p?skuId=6535499