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Western Digital's WD_Black SN850P was the first officially PlayStation 5-licensed SSD to hit the market. Seagate wants a piece of that and has hopped on the PlayStation 5 train with the new Game Drive PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD series, officially licensed for Sony's current-generation gaming console. Unlike Microsoft, which uses a proprietary SSD expansion card for the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, Sony opted to employ a standard M.2 slot for storage expansion on the PlayStation 5. The Japanese console maker's decision provides more storage options for gamers since they have many M.2 SSD offerings on the market. The M.2 slot has also paved the way for SSD manufacturers to partner with Sony to release licensed drives, which have been tested and approved...
Sony Unveils The PlayStation Portal: A Remote Play Handheld For PlayStation 5
For all of their ups and downs in the handheld game console space over the years, one of Sony's bigger successes has been their local game streaming support, better...
9 by Anton Shilov on 8/24/2023
TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab
Fabs are well-known for being an expensive business to be in, so any time a new fab is slated for construction, it tends to be a big deal &ndash...
14 by Anton Shilov on 10/15/2021
Sony Launches Xperia PRO 5G ... for $2499
Last year in February Sony had launched the Xperia 1 II, as well as teasing a sibling device called the Xperia PRO. This latter variant of the phone was...
19 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/26/2021
Sony Announces Xperia 5 II: 120Hz Full-Fledged Small Phone
Today Sony is following up on one of its newer form-factors that the company had introduced last year with the Xperia 5. The new Xperia 5 II (read as...
138 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/17/2020
Sony Announces PS5 Pricing: $499 For Regular Console, $399 For Digital Edition
At Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase this afternoon, the final (and much awaited) pieces of the puzzle with regards to the console’s launch have dropped: pricing and a release date. Sony’s...
86 by Ryan Smith on 9/16/2020
Altair Semiconductor Renames to Sony Semiconductor Israel
Today, after more than four years of being acquired by Sony, Altair Semiconductor is renaming itself as Sony Semiconductor Israel. The IoT focused company over the last few years...
4 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/21/2020
Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher In A New Era of Gaming
A new generation of gaming consoles is due to hit the market later this year, and the hype cycle for the Xbox Series X and Playstation 5 has been...
200 by Billy Tallis on 6/12/2020
Sony Teases PlayStation 5 Design
Today during Sony’s “The Future of Gaming” show where the company and its partners revealed a slew of next-generation game titles, we also had a first glimpse of the...
114 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/11/2020
Sony Announces New Xperia 1 II Flagship, Teases Xperia PRO
Today Sony announces the successor to last year’s Xperia 1 flagship phone, the new Xperia 1 II, as well as teasing a new interesting device in the form of...
120 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/24/2020
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Flagship Mobile
2019 is coming to an end, and it’s time again to look back at what the industry has brought us. This year, we saw a lot of hardware improvements...
54 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/26/2019
Sony to Build New Fab to Boost CMOS Sensor Output
Sony this week has revealed that the company will be building a new semiconductor fab to boost output of its CMOS sensors, as part of a broader effort to...
16 by Anton Shilov on 11/1/2019
Sony’s Micro LED-Based Ultra-HD TVs Available to Consumers: 2K to 16K Resolutions, up to 790-Inches
Sony this month started to offer its Micro LED-based displays to well-funded consumers. Officially branded as Crystal LED direct view display systems (aka CLEDIS), these ultra high-end products were...
47 by Anton Shilov on 9/19/2019
The Sony Xperia 1 Review: A 21:9 Take of the World
Sony is a company that we don’t talk nearly as much about as one would expect when it comes to their smartphones. In fact, here at AnandTech we had...
75 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/26/2019
Sony's Flagship Xperia 1 21:9 Smartphone Gets a Launch Date: July 12th for $950
Sony has finally given its flagship Xperia 1 smartphone an official launch date and price. The handset, which features a large 21:9 OLED display that supports wide color gamuts...
35 by Anton Shilov on 5/17/2019
Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation: Custom AMD Chip with Zen 2 CPU & Navi GPU, SSD Too
After years of speculation about what could be and what Sony may be up to, the company is finally starting to ramp up the long launch cycle for their...
187 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2019
Sony Develops 16K Display: A 783-Inch ‘Crystal LED’ Screen
Sony has shown at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show that it had developed a screen featuring a 16K resolution that uses its Crystal LED technology. The...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/11/2019
Sony Xperia 1, the Long 21:9 Smartphone, Available for Pre-Order
When Sony introduced its Xperia 1 flagship smartphone at MWC 2019, the company disclosed all technical specifications, but omitted two important details: pricing and launch date. This month some...
25 by Anton Shilov on 3/15/2019
Sony Has a Prototype 5G mmWave Xperia Smartphone
Numerous manufacturers of smartphones either launched or demonstrated prototypes of their 5G handsets at this year's Mobile World Congress. While many of the handsets shown off supported sub-6GHz 5G...
11 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019
The Sony Xperia 1: A Long 21:9 HDR 4K OLED Smartphone
Being a high-tech company with multiple divisions, Sony can fetch technologies from various units to build products with unique qualities. At Mobile World Congress 2019 the company introduced its...
20 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2019
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