Today’s Microsoft Surface Event 2019 brings good news for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) investors and Ryzen fans. For the first time, AMD’s Ryzen CPU (central processing unit) will power a flagship laptop.

At the event, Microsoft (MSFT) launched its 15-inch Surface Laptop 3, powered by a custom Ryzen Surface Edition processor from AMD. This news confirms the rumor in mid-September that AMD Ryzen would inhabit Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop 3.

The custom CPU is branded AMD Ryzen Microsoft Surface Processor. It features a 12nm (nanometer) Ryzen 7 or 5 CPU and Vega 11 GPU (graphics processing unit). Microsoft is using the 12nm Ryzen, as AMD has not yet released its 7nm Ryzen mobile platform.

Microsoft Surface engineer Pavan Davuluri told The Verge, “The reason we built the Ryzen AMD part was to be able to make sure we had best in class GPU performance in that same power and performance footprint that we’ve traditionally built the Surface Laptops on.”

Notably, Microsoft has used discrete GPUs in its previous Surface laptops alongside Intel’s integrated GPU. But with the Surface Laptop 3, it is bringing integrated discrete GPU cores, which should boost its performance significantly.