Custom AMD APU silicon previously touted as the early spec for the PlayStation 5 has resurfaced online. The AMD APU first appeared back in January – its specs list decoded from a jumbled alphanumeric string – and it appeared to be in the very early stages of development. But the most recent leak shows the red team has made progress on the Zen/Navi chip.

The first string we got our hands on was 2G16002CE8JA2_32/10/10_13E9. This showed a CPU with eight physical cores, a 3.2GHz boost clock, and a PCI-ID reportedly that of an AMD Navi 10Lite GPU. We couldn’t confirm whether the architecture used within the CPU was Zen+ or Zen 2, but it was suspected to be the former due to the numeral representing the cache size. Either way the silicon looked to be a lot more powerful than the Jaguar cores the PS4 Pro is currently rocking.

The latest code is ZG16702AE8JB2_32/10/18_13F8, which we can decode somewhat with MoePC’s decoder. The “Z” at the beginning would imply this chip is inching closer to a finalised product. And it looks like many of the specs have remained unchanged, such as eight physical cores and a boost clockspeed of 3.2GHz. There have been some further changes to the ID, such as stepping seemingly increasing from “A2” to “B2”, which could confirm further progress has been made on the chip.