AMD to increase production ahead of PS5 and Xbox Series X launch this year

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AMD to increase production ahead of PS5 and Xbox Series X launch this year

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During the last months we have seen, heard and read different rumors about PS5 and Xbox Series X of all types, although many of them focused on a eventual delay of the launch of both consoles due to the consequences of the coronavirus in the production chains of hardware, rumors that have denied ad nauseam both Sony and Microsoft, saying over and over that the launch of their consoles next-gen occur this same 2020.

In this current, precisely, are the statements of Lisa Su, the main person in charge of AMD who is in charge of creating the heart of both machines, the SoCs in which the processor and the graphics that these consoles will be integrated and of which AMD will start boosting its production to support the launch of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year..

Lisa Su's specific words after presenting AMD's good financial results during the first quarter of the year were as follows: "We expect semi-custom revenue (speaking of processors or custom-made products like these) to increase in the second quarter and to weigh heavily in the second half of the year as we increase production to support Christmas releases of PlayStation consoles. 5 and Xbox Series X"

Remember that both PS5 and Xbox Series X use AMD SoC with a processor with Zen 2 architecture and RDNA 2 graphics. In the case of PS5 the processor be from 8 cores at 3.5 GHz with variable frequency and the graph reach the 10.28 TFLOPs with 36 Compute Units at 2.23 GHz (also with variable frequency). For his part Xbox Series X will be on paper more powerful thanks to a 8 core 3.8 GHz processor and to a graph what to achieve 12 TFLOPS Thank you to your 52 Compute Unites at 1,825 GHz.

Xbox Series X prepares a game presentation for this week

Finally tell you that Xbox Series X will celebrate this Thursday May 7 an online Inside Xbox event that will take place at 17:00 Spanish time in which the Redmond will introduce us to some of the third-party games that will be present on their next-generation console while the games first-party how Halo Infinite they will perform at another event that will take place in the summer.



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