{"id":23032,"date":"2025-05-22T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandligo.com\/?p=23032"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:38:47","slug":"xbox-handheld-to-use-custom-amd-chip-not-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/xbox-handheld-to-use-custom-amd-chip-not-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Handheld to Use Custom AMD Chip, Not ARM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-start=\"327\" data-end=\"398\">Xbox Handheld to Feature Custom AMD APU, Not ARM \u2013 Rumor Suggests<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"717\">Recent speculation surrounding<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/consoles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Microsoft\u2019s upcoming Xbox<\/a> handheld device is being challenged by fresh insights. Despite earlier reports hinting at a possible ARM-based design, a trusted AMD leaker, KeplerL2, has revealed on NeoGAF forums that the handheld will instead feature a custom low-power APU from AMD.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"719\" data-end=\"1146\">This move stays consistent with Microsoft\u2019s reliance on AMD for its previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/xbox-developer-direct-2025-all-the-announcements\/\">Xbox<\/a> hardware. The shift away from ARM architecture means better compatibility with the current Xbox game library, ensuring a smooth transition for users and developers alike. Though ARM offers energy efficiency\u2014a plus for handheld devices\u2014it would have sacrificed backward compatibility, which is a key part of Xbox\u2019s current ecosystem strategy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1148\" data-end=\"1454\">While the official Game handheld is still in development, Microsoft is reportedly testing the waters with Xbox-branded handhelds developed with multiple OEMs. These will use a variety of available APUs, such as AMD Z2E, Intel\u2019s Lunar\/Panther Lake, Qualcomm\u2019s X Elite 2, and NVIDIA\u2019s N1.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1456\" data-end=\"1771\">The first of these branded handhelds, Project Kennan, is being developed in collaboration with ASUS. It will run on Windows and feature an Xbox-style UI, possibly offering a glimpse into Microsoft\u2019s future mobile gaming ambitions. Project Kennan is expected to launch before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox Handheld to Feature Custom AMD APU, Not ARM \u2013 Rumor Suggests Recent speculation surrounding Microsoft\u2019s upcoming Xbox handheld device is being challenged by fresh insights. Despite earlier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1713],"tags":[6846,6853,6850,6044,6276,6854,6848,6847,6852,6855,6849,6845,6851],"class_list":["post-23032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technews","tag-amd-apu","tag-amd-custom-apu","tag-asus-handheld","tag-gaming-hardware","tag-gaming-news","tag-handheld-console","tag-microsoft-xbox","tag-project-kennan","tag-windows-handheld","tag-xbox-ecosystem","tag-xbox-gaming","tag-xbox-handheld","tag-xbox-portable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23034,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032\/revisions\/23034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandligo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}