In the last few months, console news, rumors, and leaks have been popping in left and right, but sony always seemed to be ahead of Microsoft in talking about their console. Their interview with Wired where their lead architect talked about the PS5 and its SSD, the other interview about the controller having force feedback on the triggers and even the dev kit pictures that kept popping up, Microsoft just seemed a little late to the party. Well. no more since the green team has just unveiled their next console, the Xbox Series X. i’ts such terrible name. This is not a watch Microsoft. Its a console, it needs a cool name. I would have preferred X1000… wait that’s bad too. Anyways, they unveiled it, and wow is it a piece of equipment. It might not seem like it, but that thing is huge. Judging by the disk slot, it’s around 7 and inches wide and thick and about 12 inches tall. That makes it about the same volume if not more compared to the original Xbox one X. You know, the one that looks like a VCR? This thing will not fit anywhere in my cabinet, that is for sure. It seems like Microsoft just said, hey, let’s just make a mini ITX pc and ship that! Now, of course, I’m just kidding that’s not what they did. Microsoft did say that they would use a custom SOC, which brings me to the title of this video. This SOC is weird. So here are the facts, Microsoft will use AMD’s next-gen RDNA for the console’s graphics. So RDNA 2. Microsoft will also use AMD’s Zen 2 architecture for the CPU. Now Zen 2, as AMD likes to remind us is on the 7nm process. As for RDNA2, AMD locked it in for a 7nm+EUV process. You see where I’m going here? they don’t have the same process yet are still on the same chip. This means that the custom chips for consoles are likely going to be made on a 7nm+ process. Kind of like a Zen 2.5 CPU with RDNA2 integrated graphics. Now I know what you’re going to say, Zen 2 has a chiplet design so they could just plop one chiplet for the cores, one for the GPU and one for the IO. And sure, they could, but the Project Scarlett video shows a monolithic design. Not only that, but the PS5 was also confirmed to be an integrated SOC. ————————————————————————————————— TODAY'S DOSE OF TECH NEWS SOURCES ————————————————————————————————— Xbox Series X: https://bit.ly/36AIc54 Zen 2 on 7nm+ : ( This is a hypothesis ) China to ban all hardware from US for state computers : https://bit.ly/34kUhKq Apple Cloth-Gate : https://bit.ly/2PLN1lg Free Epic Games : https://bit.ly/35ohVHa ——————————————————— About Boot Sequence: Snows and the rest of the Boot Sequen ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPhrFaZ7PQ