AMD Athlon 300U

The Athlon 300U is AMD's bare-bones option for laptops that need to hit a low price point above all else. Two Zen+ cores with SMT get you to four threads on paper, but real-world performance is closer to what you'd expect from a dual-core chip — fine for browsing and documents, not much else.

It's built on the 12nm "Picasso" die with a small Vega 3 graphics block attached, running at a 15W envelope that keeps thin, fanless designs viable. Clocks top out at 3.1GHz boost, which is enough to feel responsive in short bursts but not under sustained load.