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Zippy6 said:

Ryuu96 said:

Sony did something like that.

The move to a 6nm chip means the logic transistor density increased by 18.8% and the die size shrunk from 300 square millimeters to just 270 (roughly 15% smaller). The other benefit of the smaller chip for Sony is the fact 20% more of them can be produced per wafer, with little difference in production cost.

New PS5 Model Uses More Efficient 'Oberon Plus' 6nm Chip (pcmag.com)

Likely Xbox is working on a similar solution.

Microsoft Reportedly Working On Smaller, More Power Efficient Series X Chip | Pure Xbox

Wouldn't change the outside look though so I'm not sure if that is the ?

The change to 6nm would be very welcome. Though like you said, PS5 did that 6 months ago now and is supposedly launching a new model this year so I think some kind of Series X Slim instead would be great.

Yup. Here's more.

As the PS5 is the most produced out of the 3 current generation consoles (PS5/XSX/XSS), it sees the biggest benefit moving to N6 first. Going forward, only Oberon Plus will be produced, and 7nm Oberon production stopped. And while one can make near 50% more PS5 chips per wafer than Xbox Series X chips, the latter will also get its 6nm update of Arden in the future.

PS5 Refresh: Oberon Plus - by SkyJuice - Angstronomics

Lets just assume that Xbox started looking into it later than Sony, and Sony's was first spotted in September 2022, plus some of these productions can take up to a year from order - delivery IIRC...I'd say it's reasonable to assume the smaller die should hit Xbox Series X in early 2023.

Isn't the PS5 rumour for 2024? I thought it was for a PS5 Pro as well? Did I miss a rumour of a PS5 Slim? Goddamnit, Loll, If PS is doing a Slim and Pro then Xbox will too, I really don't want a Pro this early and I don't think a "Slim" would be that much slimmer, Lol.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 22 March 2023