In short: The rumors have been (partly) true: AMD has dropped Home windows 10 help for its new Strix Level Ryzen AI 300 Collection chips. The transfer comes regardless of Microsoft persevering with to help Home windows 10 till close to the top of 2025. As famous within the earlier report, you’ll be able to blame the tech world’s obsession with AI for the choice.

A Weibo submit final month from somebody stated to be Lenovo’s China supervisor said that, beginning with the Strix Level (Ryzen AI 300) APUs, AMD will cease offering Home windows 10 drivers.

The announcement of the Zen 5 cell structure has confirmed the shortage of help for Home windows 10, at the least within the cell chips. A take a look at the Ryzen AI 9 HX 365 and 370 specs pages checklist the supported working methods as Home windows 11 64-bit, Crimson Hat Enterprise Linux, and Ubuntu.

The choice to make these cell chips Home windows 11-only is not too shocking, given their give attention to all issues AI and NPUs with as much as 50 TOPS efficiency. Microsoft introduced that solely laptops with an NPU able to 40 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) or larger are thought-about Copilot+ PCs. Accessing all the additional AI smarts baked into Strix Level requires Home windows 11, which tends to be the default choice in brand-new laptops.

The excellent news is that AMD hasn’t dropped Home windows 10 help for all its Zen 5 processors. The 4 new Ryzen 9000-series desktop CPUs it introduced do help Home windows 10.

Home windows 10 reaches its end-of-support date on October 14, 2025. Organizations that wish to proceed utilizing the OS after this date can have the choice of enrolling their PCs right into a paid Prolonged Safety Updates (ESU) subscription, but it surely’s not low cost: $61 per gadget for the primary 12 months, $122 within the second 12 months and $244 within the third.

The most recent knowledge from Statcounter exhibits that whereas Home windows 10’s person share has fallen since April, it nonetheless holds over 67% of the market whereas Home windows 11 has 28.3%. Microsoft will probably be happier trying on the Steam survey outcomes, the place Home windows 10’s share is simply over 5 factors larger than Home windows 11.