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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Do we know who's at fault here? Some articles claim that it's Lenovo that has stopped with the driver updates, while others say that it's AMD that is no longer giving third party vendors like Lenovo and Asus with new drivers, and that's why those third parties don't launch new drivers as well (they need to be tuned by the manufacturer to accomodate for the different power profiles they went with).

I'd be very surprised if it's AMD this time around.

I mean, the Z1 extreme is essentially just a Ryzen 7 7840U with a lower minimum TDP of 9W compared to 15W in the 7840U.

As my Ryzen 7 7735HS (Which is Zen3+ & RDNA2 while the Z1 Extreme is Zen4 + RDNA3) still gets monthly updates, I'd be surprised if the newer one would get it's support stopped, doubly so because I still sometimes see some laptops with that CPU and there are still some RDNA3 GPUs selling. Also, I don't think hearing about either being EOL. And they're actively advertising the chips on their site: https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/handhelds/ryzen-z-series.html#tabs-5cd2ba8b56-item-7f17818705-tab

You make a good point, and if it were only Lenovo, then I'd agree with you. But some posts suggest that Asus has also stopped providing drivers for its Ally handhelds. And that complicates it all.