The other interesting aspect to all of this is that my sources never mentioned Microsoft in the Navi conversations. This is pure speculation, but maybe Microsoft's next Xbox devices -- code-named "Scarlett" -- won't use Navi at all. Perhaps it will use a separate semi-custom solution incorporating Vega, or something else entirely that we're not privy to.

I've learned that the PS5 will use both AMD's Zen and Navi graphics architectures.

What isn't clear is whether the PS5 will incorporate a beefy SoC (system on a chip) or use separate Ryzen and Navi-based components.

Right now little is known about AMD's Navi graphics architecture, other than the fact it will use the 7nm process.

Navi isn't just inside the Sony PS5; it was created for Sony.

Which brings us to, in my eyes, the more interesting revelation. According to my sources, The vast majority of AMD and Sony's Navi collaboration took place while Raja Koduri -- Radeon Technologies Group boss and chief architect -- was at AMD.

The other interesting aspect to all of this is that my sources never mentioned Microsoft in the Navi conversations. This is pure speculation, but maybe Microsoft's next Xbox devices -- code-named "Scarlett" -- won't use Navi at all. Perhaps it will use a separate semi-custom solution incorporating Vega, or something else entirely that we're not privy to. Either way, the conversations I had referred to Navi in the past tense, as if it was already finished.

Well. I don't think anyone is actually surprised by that. (Pinch of salt and all that though, remember.)

Why not both? The Xbox 360 started out life with two separate chips and then consolidated them later once they became more financially viable.
Of course this all speculation.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
It's still Graphics Core Next... And by extension we know a crap ton about Navi already.

False. Navi is an iteration of Graphics Core Next, which has been an architecture going under consistent evolutionary improvements since 2012, before the 8th gen consoles launched.
And Graphics Core Next likely had a development cycle of 4-5 years before that...

So no. It wasn't created for Sony. The ISA was pretty much done and dusted, the refined improvements however is another matter entirely.

Graphics Core Next predates him.

Navi design would certainly be "finished" at this point and should just be going through various extra processes to refine and tweak things and work with the fabs.

Just in case it isn’t clear, I didn’t write this. It’s from the article. 😊 

Yeah I know. I am just picking apart the article.