From PC Mag: Sony is working with AMD to develop machine learning and AI tech for gaming and graphics, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
The PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro consoles already use AMD GPUs, and the newer Pro version has a bigger GPU, better memory, and uses AI to power upscaling. Now, Sony and AMD are working on AI tech development project dubbed "Amethyst," a reference to the purple color you get if you mixed AMD's red branding with PlayStation's blue, to take things a step further.
"We've started on another long journey, and are combining our expertise with two goals in mind," said Sony's Mark Cerny, who was the lead architect on the PS5 and PS5 Pro, in a video announcing the collaboration. "The first goal is a more ideal architecture for machine learning."
Machine learning, a subfield of AI, could help give a next-generation Sony console the dramatic graphics performance boost needed to justify a new generation like a PS6. "We're combining the lessons AMD has learned from its multigeneration RDNA roadmap and SIE [Sony Interactive Entertainment] has learned from the custom work in PS5 Pro. But ML use in games shouldn't and can't be restricted to graphics libraries," Cerny says.
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