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Sony reportedly picked AMD over Intel for the PS6
The PS5 Pro isn’t even here yet.
According to Reuters, since AMD makes the chip in the PS5 and PS5 Pro, maintaining backward compatibility in a possible move was part of “months” of discussions in 2022 between executives and engineers at Sony and Intel. Besides the recent embarrassment of crashing Raptor Lake CPUs, Intel has been a bystander in the AI chip boom and ceded manufacturing of some next-gen tech to TSMC as it attempts to rebuild its capabilities. The report says a deal could’ve produced $30 billion in revenue for Intel, which is quoted in the article saying, “We strongly disagree with this characterization but are not going to comment about any current or potential customer conversations.”
Or read this on The Verge
