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It seems like most of the discussion with medusa is about medusa point and medusa halo but there's not much about medusa halo mini.

It's rumoured to have 14 cores(4 zen 6 + 8 zen 6c + 2 zen 6 LP), 24CU rDNA5 with 10MB of L2 cache and a 128 bit lpddr5X, along with using the standard FP10 socket, same as medusa point is rumored to use.

This solves the main problem with strix point and to some extent strix halo. Strix point was trying to be a great CPU and IGPU at once and didn't do well at either. In the Asus zephyrus G16, you already have a high end Nvidia graphics card so don't need a big iGPU and in something like the zenbook S16, it had more CPU than needed and was a huge 232mm2 die, both problems lead to a lot of laptops using kraken point like the Ryzen AI 350.

Strix halo was supposed to be a great gaming APU, 40CU graphics and 256 bit lpddr5X but the die size was huge and too AI focused, only available in 2 laptops at first and now only in around 5 or 6 total, with most being extremely expensive.

Now medusa point with the full 22 cores that has been rumoured seems to be filling the efficient and powerful CPU slot, to work great with a high end dGPU like a 5080.

That leaves medusa halo mini to do what strix point and strix halo struggled to do, be a great APU for gaming without a dGPU, while being more available and affordable than strix halo.

I don't know how everyone else is feeling but this is tech I'm most excited for in 2027, I'm crossing my fingers that we'll finally have an APU that's readily available unlike strix halo and pantherlake, not insanely expensive and has a powerful IGPU for gaming.

Finally doing some scratch math with navi 44 (Rx 9060 XT) and the Ryzen 9700X, I predict that we will get around a 135mm2 gpu die and a 80-95mm2 CPU die, both on 3nm.

Now of course my numbers could be off but should be accurate enough to show that it could be affordable if AMD wants it to be, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Anyway I'd just thought I'd put this out there to see how everyone else is feeling about medusa halo mini as it doesn't seem to be being discussed anywhere.

It seems like most of the discussion with medusa is about medusa point and medusa halo but there's not much about medusa halo mini.

It's rumoured to have 14 cores(4 zen 6 + 8 zen 6c + 2 zen 6 LP), 24CU rDNA5 with 10MB of L2 cache and a 128 bit lpddr5X, along with using the standard FP10 socket, same as medusa point is rumored to use.

This solves the main problem with strix point and to some extent strix halo. Strix point was trying to be a great CPU and IGPU at once and didn't do well at either. In the Asus zephyrus G16, you already have a high end Nvidia graphics card so don't need a big iGPU and in something like the zenbook S16, it had more CPU than needed and was a huge 232mm2 die, both problems lead to a lot of laptops using kraken point like the Ryzen AI 350.

Strix halo was supposed to be a great gaming APU, 40CU graphics and 256 bit lpddr5X but the die size was huge and too AI focused, only available in 2 laptops at first and now only in around 5 or 6 total, with most being extremely expensive.

Now medusa point with the full 22 cores that has been rumoured seems to be filling the efficient and powerful CPU slot, to work great with a high end dGPU like a 5080.

That leaves medusa halo mini to do what strix point and strix halo struggled to do, be a great APU for gaming without a dGPU, while being more available and affordable than strix halo.

I don't know how everyone else is feeling but this is tech I'm most excited for in 2027, I'm crossing my fingers that we'll finally have an APU that's readily available unlike strix halo and pantherlake, not insanely expensive and has a powerful IGPU for gaming.

Finally doing some scratch math with navi 44 (Rx 9060 XT) and the Ryzen 9700X, I predict that we will get around a 135mm2 gpu die and a 80-95mm2 CPU die, both on 3nm.

Now of course my numbers could be off but should be accurate enough to show that it could be affordable if AMD wants it to be, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Anyway I'd just thought I'd put this out there to see how everyone else is feeling about medusa halo mini as it doesn't seem to be being discussed anywhere.