PlayStation 6: AMD could have semi-custom chips manufactured by Samsung

16.12.25 - According to South Korean media reports, AMD plans to have chips manufactured at Samsung Foundry in the future. This is reported Hardwareluxx.de. This is not a complete switch from TSMC, but a complementary production option.

The focus is apparently not on the production of Radeon series graphics cards or new Ryzen processors, but potentially on the semi-custom chip for the PlayStation 6 or, if necessary, for the Xbox Next. The background is that TSMC cannot currently offer additional capacity, while Samsung would offer the opportunity to produce chips that balance price and performance.

AMD's delivery of the PlayStation 6 chip to Sony has been officially confirmed, with the console expected to launch at the end of 2027. It remains unclear whether Samsung will actually receive the production order, as the order requires millions of chips of consistent quality.

Alternatively, AMD could use the announcement to put pressure on TSMC to reach a faster agreement for the production of the PlayStation 6 chips; TSMC has already produced the chips of the PlayStation 5.

Leak: PS5 power saving mode is considered preparation for PS6 handheld "Canis"

17.12.25 - A recent leak also suggests that Sony is working on its own handheld in parallel to the next PlayStation home console. According to the report, the portable device is to be created with the code name Canis, while the stationary PlayStation 6 is internally run as Orion.

Both systems are to be based on future AMD architectures, specifically Zen 6 CPUs and RDNA 5 graphics. The focus of the new reports is the PlayStation 5's recently introduced Power Saver mode, which, according to the available information, could serve as a technical foundation for later handheld compatibility.

According to hardware leaker Moore's Law is Dead, Sony has retroactively equipped all PS5 developer kits with support for Power Saver mode up to version 1.0, although much newer SDK versions are currently in use.

prioritization did not even occur during the transition to the PlayStation 5 Pro, Moore's Law is Dead emphasizes. Internal documents are also intended to advise developers to design games in such a way that they can also run with significantly reduced CPU equipment. Operation with only eight threads and preparation for future low-power operating modes are explicitly mentioned.

The rumored handheld system is said to work with four Zen 6c cores, an RDNA 5 GPU, 16 gigabytes of LPDDR5X RAM and a power consumption of around 15 watts. The performance target is about half the grid performance of the PlayStation 5, with improved ray tracing efficiency. Backward compatibility with PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games is to be supported. According to the leak, production is expected to start in mid-2027, with a market launch at the end of 2027 or early 2028.

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Looks like ps6 is not a hybrid. There's a handheld coming.

Played the FF7 demo.

Quite linear. Is the whole game like that?

Graphics are good but some of the press reactions I saw before are a bit much. The character models are good and everything looks clean and runs nicely.

But in no way does it look as good as something like Cyberpunk or SW Outlaws.

The only real problem is the hair, same as SW Outlaws. Cloud has a fuzziness on the hair which is overly distracting. They need to simplify the hair model so DLSS can upscale more cleanly.

Like Assassin's Creed Shadows did