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PlayStation 5 Refresh Boasts New 6nm AMD Oberon Plus SoC

Sony updated its PlayStation 5 console about a month ago. Over the web and social media, game tech enthusiasts are slowly revealing the fundamental changes offered by the CFI-1202 console. A key difference that has helped drive the new compact cooling system and weight savings is Sony’s shiny new Oberon Plus processor inside the updated console.

The first two revisions of the Sony PlayStation 5 used the same AMD semi-custom processor. Next, what the PC world calls the PS5’s “APU” is called Oberon and was manufactured on TSMC’s N7 process.according to Anstronomics Backed up by updated APU comparison images, the report shows that the new Oberon Plus is featured in the CFI-1202 model and is being mass-produced by TSMC on the N6 process. It’s easy to spot the difference in chip packages, sources calculate the die size of the new processors to be less than 260mm^2. This is significantly smaller than Oberon’s approximately 300mm^2.

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