Could Sony secure PS5 exclusivity for an AMD Navi APU?
AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, has once more been talking about the work its semi-custom division has been doing with Sony to get the Zen 2 processors, and the upcoming AMD Navi silicon, working for the needs of the PS5. But just how much influence has Sony had on AMD's next-gen graphics architecture? And if the answer is 'a lot' does that mean it has any call on hardware exclusivity, potentially shutting Microsoft out of a Navi-based APU?
“What we have done with Sony is really architect something for their application, for their special sauce,” Dr. Su told Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money after its Q1 earnings were announced.
Sony isn’t just taking an off-the-shelf component and jamming it into a PlayStation-designed chassis, no, AMD has been working specifically with Sony to produce technology that fits whatever the ‘special sauce’ is that’s sloshing around the PlayStation 5.
But Dr. Su does so love a good sauce. Whether it’s Sony’s PS5 special sauce or the secret sauce gooing up the insides of Microsoft’s next Xbox, AMD’s CEO is all over it. Especially when chatting tech with Cramer it seems. Similarly, last year the pair were talking shop when she explained about the relationship with two of AMD’s most important semi-custom clients, Microsoft and Sony.
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