Sony reportedly picked AMD over Intel for the PS6

What’s adjacent aft the PS5 Pro? A report from Reuters focuses connected Sony’s plans beyond this fall’s new $700 system, saying that the conflict to triumph a declaration for the spot powering a aboriginal PlayStation 6 came down to AMD vs. Intel, with others similar Broadcom eliminated earlier, with AMD yet winning out.

According to Reuters, since AMD makes the spot successful the PS5 and PS5 Pro, maintaining backwards compatibility successful a imaginable determination was portion of “months” of discussions successful 2022 betwixt executives and engineers astatine Sony and Intel. However, Intel’s bid was blocked due to the fact that they couldn’t hold connected however overmuch nett Intel would marque from each spot it would plan arsenic Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) handled the manufacturing process.

Besides the caller embarrassment of crashing Raptor Lake CPUs, Intel has been a bystander successful the AI spot roar and ceded manufacturing of immoderate next-gen tech to TSMC arsenic it attempts to rebuild its capabilities. The chipmaking part besides racked up $7 cardinal successful losses past year, and past month, the institution announced 15,000 layoffs. Meanwhile, its upcoming spot works successful Ohio has been delayed, though it did secure Microsoft arsenic a customer for its precocious 18A spot process.

While AMD has besides trailed Nvidia’s enactment successful the AI spot marketplace and flagship GPUs, its information halfway products present make up implicit fractional of its sales. In a caller interview, AMD exec Jack Huynh said that too merging its RDNA gaming graphics and CNDA information center efforts into a azygous “UDNA,” with its gaming precedence acceptable to expanding standard astatine little terms points.

The study says a woody could’ve produced $30 cardinal successful gross for Intel, which is quoted successful the nonfiction saying, “We powerfully disagree with this characterization but are not going to remark astir immoderate existent oregon imaginable lawsuit conversations.”