AMD today announced early availability of its new mobile 7th Generation AMD A-Series "Bristol Ridge" Processors, timed to support a new notebook design by HP. Equipped with video, graphics, performance, and security features, 7th Generation AMD A-Series Processors also provide energy efficiency. New OEM PC designs powered by mobile 7th Generation AMD A-Series Processors – from ultrathin notebooks and convertibles to sleek All-in-Ones – will come to market first with HP in the new HP ENVY x360, and with other OEM announcements expected later in the year. AMD will officially introduce 7th Gen A-Series APUs and showcase a wide range of OEM designs at Computex 2016, May 31-June 4, 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Now shipping in volume are both quad- and dual-core 7th Gen AMD A-Series processors, featuring mobile-optimized "Excavator" x86 CPU cores, and Radeon R7 or R5 graphics. AMD says tha the 7th Generation AMD A-Series FX part shows up to 50% improvement in compute performance over the FX part released two years ago.

Eventually, AMD plans to ship both a desktop version of Bristol Ridge as well as a low-power, 15-watt version.

Both Bristol Ridge and its predecessor, Carrizo, use the same 28nm process technology, but AMD claims that Bristol Ridge features process improvements, including more efficient transistors and a technology called adaptive voltage frequency scaling. Those allowed AMD to boost the clock of the new APUs.

By the end of the year, AMD will have moved on to both its Zen CPU core as well as the Polaris graphics architecture.