AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027

Microsoft confirmed past twelvemonth that it’s moving connected a next-gen Xbox console in business pinch AMD. Now, AMD is hinting that the adjacent Xbox console, which will usage civilization AMD chips, could beryllium launching successful 2027.

“Development of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox, featuring an AMD semi-custom SoC, is progressing good to support a motorboat successful 2027,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su connected an net telephone today. The little remark doesn’t corroborate Microsoft will motorboat a caller Xbox successful 2027, but it does uncover that AMD is fresh to support a motorboat past if Microsoft is besides ready.

Microsoft entered a “strategic multi-year partnership” pinch AMD past twelvemonth that includes the brace co-engineering silicon “across a portfolio of devices — including our next-generation Xbox consoles successful your surviving room and successful your hands.” AMD and Microsoft are besides moving together to build the adjacent procreation of Xbox Cloud Gaming servers.

Microsoft has been teasing that the next-gen Xbox will beryllium immoderate type of hybrid console and PC, pinch the Xbox Ally devices serving arsenic the first groundwork towards this extremity goal. “The next-gen console is going to beryllium a very premium, very high-end curated experience,” said Xbox president Sarah Bond successful October.

Microsoft hasn’t put a day connected its next-gen Xbox, and documents that leaked arsenic portion of the FTC v. Microsoft lawsuit primitively pointed towards a potential 2028 release. Those documents, which don’t bespeak existent plans anymore, mentioned utilizing a civilization AMD CPU arsenic good arsenic a co-designed AMD GPU.