Xbox and AMD Officially Partner for Future Consoles
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- Xbox’s next generation hardware lineup will be partnered with AMD.
- This partnership applies across consoles, handheld, PC, cloud, and accesssories.
- AMD and Xbox is a strategic multi-year partnership.
Xbox and AMD are officially partnered for future generation hardware lineups, which includes consoles, handhelds, PC, cloud, and other accessories.
“I’m thrilled to share we’ve established a mutli-year partnership with AMD to co-engineeer silicon across a portfolio of devices including our next-generation Xbox-consoles,” Sarah Bond stated in the annnouncement video.
The collaboration is marketed to deliver next generation of graphics innovation and state of the art advancements in gaming silicon technology, all enhanced with the power of AI. According to the video, Xbox’s goal is to allow gamers to play games across devices anywhere they want, thanks to the versatile fucntioanlity of their marketed improve cloud features.
Xbox’s officially confirmed handheld is a variant of the ROG Ally; the standard ROG Xbox Ally is powered by AMD’s Ryzen Z2 A chip, with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. The more powerful ROG Xbox Ally X features the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme chip, 24GB of RAM, and 1TB of SSD storage.
Their upcoming next generation console is expected to use AMD hardware as well, alongside support backwards compatibility.
