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PS6 Is Already Deep in Development, Backwards Compatibility of High Importance

Intel lost chip manufacturing contract.Sony is already hard at work on the PS6, a Reuters article has revealed. The exclusive report delves into the story of Intel, and how it allegedly lost the contract to manufacture chips for the next-gen machine. Talks between the two tech giants purportedly took place in 2022, with AMD ultimately winning the lucrative deal.While the article focuses heavily on the impact to Intel, it does reveal that backwards compatibility is of enormous importance to PlayStation: “Moving from AMD, which made the PS5 chip, to Intel would have risked backwards compatibility, which was a subject of discussion between Intel and Sony engineers and executives, the sources said.”Read the full article on pushsquare.com

Sony is already hard at work on the PS6, a Reuters article has revealed. The exclusive report delves into the story of Intel, and how it allegedly lost the contract to manufacture chips for the next-gen machine. Talks between the two tech giants purportedly took place in 2022, with AMD ultimately winning the lucrative deal.

While the article focuses heavily on the impact to Intel, it does reveal that backwards compatibility is of enormous importance to PlayStation: “Moving from AMD, which made the PS5 chip, to Intel would have risked backwards compatibility, which was a subject of discussion between Intel and Sony engineers and executives, the sources said.”.