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Sony could be planning to release a slimmer version of its next-gen console, the PlayStation 5, in as little as two years. The speculation stems from Red Gaming Tech owner Paul Eccleston, who was told by one of his sources at AMD that Sony has already booked some of TSMC’s highly desirable 5-nanometer capacity for 2023. Eccleston theorized that this is most likely for a PS5 Slim, as the performance leap between TSMC’s 7 nm and 5 nm processes doesn’t seem significant enough to warrant the plausibility of a PlayStation 5 Pro.
“[…] I was told that Sony have booked time with TSMC from 2023 for their 5 nm fab, and if you look at the performance jump from the 7 nm node to the 5 nm node, it’s not vast,” Eccleston said in a recent video...
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