The surprising announcement on the AMD’s Kevin Lensing took the stage to announce that Ryzen Mobile will support Snapdragon GigabitLTE with its laptops.

AMD believes that always on laptops are the way to go and since both Qualcomm and AMD are focused on competing with Intel, this partnership makes a lot of sense. Kevin Lensing is the Corporate Vice President and General Manager of a Client Business Unit at AMD.

Of course, Kevin took some time to gloat that AMD launched Ryzen, Threadripper, Vega, and Epyc and that it came back with a vengeance in 2018. Now with Ryzen mobile, AMD plans to have an LTE always-connected Windows 10 laptop using Qualcomm.

Qualcomm can claim that its GigabitLTE Snapdragon X16 modems will be featured in X86 laptops too. Kevin mentioned that the Snapdragon modem will be part of the development platform and you can imagine that there should be devices supporting always-connected Windows 10 on the market soon.

The year 2018 might be where more notebook manufacturers might embrace the LTE always-connected approach.

We expect to see more AMD based Ryzen laptops in CES – January time.