PC World New Zealand What are the new Surface Edition chips in the Surface Laptop 4? The Ryzen 7 4980U Surface Edition is an eight-core chip, double the number of cores found in the Surface Laptop 3, Microsoft says. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft has released more information about the custom-built Ryzen Surface Edition processors found within the Surface Laptop 4, allowing potential buyers to compare them to the 11th-gen Core chips also being offered for this product line. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 includes two Ryzen chips: the Ryzen 5 4680U Surface Edition, and the Ryzen 7 4980U Surface Edition. These are semi-custom processors, co-developed by AMD and Microsoft, and they required some specialized engineering. They’re