AMD is Making 20nm XBOXONE And PS4 APUs for 2022

This leak comes via a beyond3d.com forum post which Eurogamer.net picked up. And it includes several interesting points that AMD'southward Senior SOC Physical Design Managing director lists in his LinkedIn profile. Unfortunately the LinkedIn profile has since been deleted. But a re-create of the relevant information is however bachelor in the beyond3D.com forum post.

AMD APU in XBOX One

AMD'due south CEO Lisa Sue has also confirmed that the company is working on ii die shrinks for each of Sony and Microsoft during the last quarterly conference call. A specific lithography hadn't been confirmed at the fourth dimension. However Lisa Sue stated that the company volition be talking more about this dieshrink in 2022 which suggested a 20nm compress. Something that this leak confirms.

AMD Shrinking PS4 and XBOXONE APUs from 28nm to 20nm - Slim Versions of the Consoles Possibly Coming in 2022

A transition to a smaller manufacturing process leads to many benefits. The most of import of which is the reduction in flake size consequently leading to power and manufacturing cost reductions. In that location also tends to exist a functioning benefit with each process node transition. It's unlikely that we'd see that with the consoles for the sole reason of maintaining consistent performance.

Still both Sony and Microsoft can leverage the other benefits. Lower ability too means less heat. Which means both Microsoft and Sony can work towards building smaller, sleeker versions of their consoles. Information technology also means that they can use simpler cooling, less complicated power circuitry and a more than affordable power supply unit of measurement. All leading to a more bonny device with a more than affordable cost tag.

xbox one soc Late 2022 seems like the most plausible time-frame to see this evolution materialize in a new product. While 20nm is available right at present. Yields aren't very good and cost is even so very high. So it would make no sense for whatever of the parties involved to begin 20nm mass production right now.

We know AMD has contracted both TSMC and Globalfoundries for production of the console APUs. Initially AMD used TSMC merely added Globalfoundries afterwards on as their 28nm process matured and became more cost efficient. We'll likely see a like pattern with the new APU as well.

Every bit things stand correct now, information technology seems both Sony and Microsoft fans volition accept something to look frontwards to in holiday season of 2022.