I figured I would go ahead and compile some of AMD leaker Kepler's tweets about Xbox Hardware because I don't think we ever really talked about them here when he made them back in September.
Kepler says he has seen no evidence of a 6nm die shrink of the Series X chipset for Brooklin:
No 6nm Arden Plus/Sparkman Plus AFAIK. Wonder if this was a cancelled project 🤔 https://t.co/iAq64XHfgB
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) September 19, 2023
Kepler says he has heard that Xbox Next is using Zen 5 rather than the Zen 6 from the ABK trial leaked slide and that he heard it's coming earlier than 2028:
I've heard very different things 🤔
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) September 19, 2023
Zen5 and earlier than 2028.
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) September 19, 2023
Kepler says he believes that the planned Series S and X refreshes, Ellewood and Brooklin, were both cancelled and that Xbox will instead release Xbox Next in 2025 or 2026:
I think they are cancelled and we will see Xbox-next in 2025/2026.
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) September 25, 2023
Kepler says he believes a 2026 release for Xbox Next is a smart strategy because a Series S2 released in 2026 would be roughly similar to base PS5 in specs, a console which would be getting near guaranteed software releases by devs until at least 2030 (simply because it is selling like hotcakes), meaning that a Series S2 wouldn't hold back developers in the early-mid gen in the way that Series S has (basically S2 would only become an issue for devs the last few years of it's lifecycle once PS5/Series X support are dropped and developers want to target X2 and PS6 as the baseline):
I think it's a smart strategy actually. A 2026 XSS 2 could be similar in power to the PS5 and we will likely see PS5 games until 2030 at least, so XSS 2 wouldn't really be a major headache for developers like the XSS is now.
— Kepler (@Kepler_L2) September 25, 2023
