Laptops and tablet hybrids with AMD’s new 7th generation chips, code-named Bristol Ridge, will soon become available. The chip is being positioned as a worthy Intel Skylake alternative.

To summarize: AMD is promising longer battery life and performance in laptops with the new chips. The CPU performance is slightly faster, and the GPU is about 18 percent faster compared to last year’s AMD chips, called Carrizo.

HP’s Envy X360 is the first laptop announced with Bristol Ridge. Its 15.6-in. screen can fold to turn the device into a tablet. It has about 10 hours of battery life, and users will be able to play back 4K video. AMD chips typically suffer on CPU performance, so time will tell how good the PC is at running applications like Microsoft Office or antivirus.

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