Xbox, the gaming giant owned by Microsoft, enters into a strategic and multi-year agreement with AMD, the Santa Clara-headquartered company, to co-design its upcoming lineup across next-gen consoles, PCs, and handheld gaming devices. The partnership aims to empower the gaming experience with next-gen, superior silicon chips across its hardware lineup. 

The partnership aims to co-engineer silicon across a portfolio of devices, including future first-party consoles and cloud. As Xbox traces its path to deliver a seamless and accessible experience for users, the partnership presents a golden opportunity for the company to explore a gaming experience that is not locked to a single store or tied to one device. The partnership would envision Xbox’s commitment to delivering an enduring gaming platform that enables gamers to play across devices in entirely new ways. 

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Making Windows Best for Gaming

Sarah Bond, President of Xbox, announced that the partnership will help Windows become supreme in the gaming landscape. Beyond its hardware ambitions, the partnership aims to empower the Windows platform to reflect the aspirations and expectations of the gaming market today or in the coming times. 

Next-Gen Xbox Consoles

The partnership is all set to deliver cutting-edge technology equipped with state-of-the-art gaming silicon technology. “And what we're focused on there is delivering the largest technical leap you will have seen in a hardware generation,” Sarah Bond had said in an earlier podcast in 2024 while talking about next-gen consoles. 

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While there’s no certain date claimed by the company, the market expects the next-gen consoles to debut in 2028, as also revealed by court documents from the FTC trial in June of the year before last.

What exactly is Next-Gen Silicon technology?

The much-referred-to Next-Gen Silicon technology would be gaming-optimized chips combining the technology of Ryzen and Radeon, the AI-powered chip infrastructure developed by AMD, to deliver best-in-class technology across the gaming hardware, including consoles, PCs, and handheld devices.

"Together, we are building a vibrant, open ecosystem that delivers the next generation of graphics and immersive gameplay," says Lisa Su, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of AMD. "Powered by AI that includes new foundational models to accelerate the state of the art in rendering," she adds.