This Framework board would be the first to fulfill Microsoft’s requirements for the Copilot+ PC label, together with still-in-preview options like Windows Recall. Copilot+ PCs help extra AI options that common Home windows 11 PC options do not, and to run these options regionally in your PC, Microsoft requires a neural processing unit (NPU) with the efficiency of at the very least 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). The Ryzen AI 300 board might be Framework’s third with a built-in NPU—the AMD Ryzen 7040 and Intel Meteor Lake variations have them, too—however the first with an NPU that meets the Copilot+ necessities.

Framework says it’ll proceed to promote older Ryzen 7040-based motherboards, too, at a barely decreased value of $749. These are older processors, however they don’t seem to be that outdated—AMD nonetheless sells slightly warmed-over versions of the very same silicon beneath its “Ryzen 200” branding.

Different odds and ends

Framework nearly all the time makes use of a brand new board as a chance to launch one other batch of up to date and revised equipment for present and future Framework Laptop computer 13 house owners.

This time round, the corporate is giving the laptop computer a “new second-generation keyboard,” which retains “the identical awesome-feeling 1.5mm key journey” however modifies wider keys like shift and the spacebar to “[reduce] buzzing when your audio system are cranked up.” The revision of the keyboard shipped with pre-built Home windows laptops additionally provides Microsoft’s Copilot key, although a model with no Home windows or Copilot branding (and a platform-agnostic Tremendous key with the Framework gear brand rather than the Home windows brand key) continues to be obtainable for the DIY editions.

The opposite accent replace is beauty: Framework is now promoting translucent purple, inexperienced, and black bezels and USB-C growth playing cards you need to use so as to add just a little aptitude to your laptop computer. These will be a part of the non-translucent orange, inexperienced, purple, and crimson USB-C growth playing cards in Framework’s online store.