PlayStation Handheld May Have Exclusive Next-Gen AMD Graphics, Report Suggests

Sony may have exclusive access to AMD's next-generation graphics architecture for a potential PlayStation handheld, the tech experts at Digital Foundry have said.

There have been rumors of a next-generation PlayStation handheld for some time now, after the success of the Nintendo Switch and a wide gamut of PC gaming handhelds. Indeed, in June, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hideaki Nishino suggested PlayStation may move towards more hybrid, Switch-like consoles in the future to match modern on-the-go players.

When I watched the latest Patreon-exclusive DF Direct, Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter claimed that "there's been some behind-the-scenes discussion that Sony has an exclusive of sorts with AMD for RDNA 5 for handheld," and that the only other, presumably handheld, chip he knows of in production at AMD is what's going to be known as Z3, which is unlikely to have RDNA 5 graphics.

AMD and Sony have been working closely for the last couple of years, teaming up on an initiative called …