New Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop releases tipped to arrive next year with rumoured AMD Sound Wave processors

Microsoft has already released four Surface Laptop and Surface Pro models this year. To recap, the company kicked off 2025 by introducing Intel Lunar Lake-powered versions of the Surface Laptop 7 and Surface Pro 11 alongside the Surface USB4 Dock (curr. $199.99 on Amazon).

Then just last week, the company presented the Surface Laptop 13-inch and Surface Pro 12-inch as cheaper alternatives to its existing ARM-based models. Based on current expectations, Microsoft is not done with its Surface division just yet. Instead, we may see a new Surface Laptop Studio before the end of the year powered by recent x86 processors.

Microsoft may have something even bigger up its sleeve for next year, though. According to early rumours, the company has turned to AMD to supply chipsets for a slew of next-generation Surface devices. Reportedly, the chipsets in question are from AMD's 'Sound Wave' architecture, which Moore's Law is Dead detailed in March.

To recap, AMD Sound Wave APUs are said to feature eight ARM-derived CPU cores split between two performance and four efficiency clusters. Also joined by an iGPU containing four Compute Units (CUs) built around the 'RDNA 3.5+' architecture, Moore's Law is Dead adds that Sound Wave will rely on TSMC's 3 nm nodes to maximise power efficiency within a 5-10 W envelope.

Although details are thin on the ground for now, KeplerL2 believes that AMD has designed Sound Wave APUs principally for Microsoft's '2026 Surface lineup'. In other words, we would not be surprised if the Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 arrived sometime next spring to replace Microsoft's current consumer-focused models.