Microsoft: new versions of its Xbox Series S in 2022 and Series X in 2023

Microsoft: new versions of its Xbox Series S in 2022 and Series X in 2023

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The move to 6nm AMD components with (possibly) higher frequencies and more cores.

With the exception of the Xbox Series S, which is more easily found, the situation for next-generation consoles, the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, therefore, is not really good. Several months after their respective release, it is still very difficult to get your hands on the products and the end of the shortage does not seem for tomorrow.



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An update of the current models

This delicate situation does not prevent Microsoft from thinking about the future, however, and according to WCCFTech, this could materialize rather quickly. Our colleagues relay the words of the youtubeur Moore's Law is Dead (MLiD), which is often well informed.

Through a new video, the latter specifies that the Redmond company would have in its boxes two new consoles designed to exploit the new APUs from AMD, engraved according to the 6 nm process. "New consoles", the term is a bit strong insofar as MLiD actually evokes a refresh, an update, of current machines.

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First the Xbox Series S, then the Model X

Moore's Law is Dead specifies that this refresh would be done in two stages. From next year (2022), it should concern the "small" model of Xbox Series, the S therefore. It would then be necessary to wait until 2023 for the refresh of the Xbox Series X to arrive on the market in turn.


Still according to MLiD, this Xbox Series S update could come to counter rumors of PlayStation 5 "Slim" about which Sony has not commented, but which places the release of this model around the end of 2022. Xbox Series S "new formula" would logically be more powerful than the current version.


To give it a nice boost, Microsoft could count on the switch to 6 nm for the manufacture of the AMD APU of its consoles. Thus, 24 compute units would be available within the RDNA 2 graphics solution. The current Xbox Series S is estimated at 4 TFLOPs of computing power and the new model could exceed 5 TFLOPs while Microsoft would have the idea of market around 350 dollars.



One more spade for Sony's PlayStation 5 Slim, but let's keep in mind that despite Moore's Law is Dead's usually reliable information, none of this is official.

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