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 statement for the spot powering a early PlayStation 6 came down to AMD vs. Intel, pinch others for illustration Broadcom eliminated earlier, pinch AMD yet winning out.

According to Reuters, since AMD makes the spot successful the PS5 and PS5 Pro, maintaining backwards compatibility successful a imaginable move was portion of “months” of discussions successful 2022 betwixt executives and engineers astatine Sony and Intel. However, Intel’s bid was blocked because they couldn’t work together connected really overmuch profit Intel would make from each spot it would creation 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 section 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 activity successful the AI spot marketplace and flagship GPUs, its information halfway products now make up complete half 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,” pinch its gaming privilege group to expanding standard astatine little value points.

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