{"id":526670,"date":"2026-06-30T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:48:09","slug":"amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526670\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Backs Up PS6 Portable Rumors With &#8220;Zen 6 LP&#8221; Core Support in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When rumors and leaks about the internals of the upcoming PlayStation 6 Portable handheld started to emerge, we caught wind that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/347144\/playstation-6-leak-tips-4k-120-fps-in-most-games-with-6-12x-rt-performance-of-ps5?cp=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">upcoming gaming handheld would feature a Zen 6c CPU<\/a> with four Zen 6c cores and two Zen 6 LP cores. The rumors that the PS6 Portable would feature Zen 6 LP cores has been corroborated by a new Linux kernel patch from AMD engineer, Vishal Badole, that includes support for Zen 6 LP cores, piling evidence on top of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350333\/playstation-renews-live-service-games-push-and-ps6-handheld-hype\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sony&#8217;s recent hints<\/a> that it is developing a standalone gaming handheld for the PS6 generation. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/GjMPL\" target=\"_blank\">kernel update<\/a> adds support for a new CPU classification and reads:&#8221;This series extends the x86 topology cpu_type classification to support a Low Power core type, in addition to the existing Performance and Efficiency types. AMD heterogeneous parts report the core type via CPUID Fn0x80000026 EBX [31:28](Extended CPU Topology, Core Type). Value 2 identifies a low-power core designed for minimal power consumption during background or idle workloads.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/EyKooyWONcNIP7j0.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"630\" data-fancybox=\"g350429\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/EyKooyWONcNIP7j0_thm.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/xZTUTSLZu20nnZ9y.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1530\" data-height=\"868\" data-fancybox=\"g350429\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/xZTUTSLZu20nnZ9y_thm.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> The mention of &#8220;minimal power consumption&#8221; indicates that this is Zen 6 LP, and it would be the first time we&#8217;ve seen AMD branch off from its current heterogenous design, which features two CPU core types\u2014Zen 5c and Zen 5\u2014while we&#8217;ve already seen Zen 6 and Zen 6c cores appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/346555\/amd-ryzen-500-series-medusa-point-apu-brings-rdna-4m-igpu-with-fsr-4-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rumors about Medusa Point APUs<\/a>. The Canis APU in the upcoming PlayStation 6 Portable was, until this kernel update, the only time we&#8217;ve seen mention of the Zen 6 LP core type, so the addition of support to the Linux kernel seems to add credence to the leaks and rumors concerning the PS6 handheld, but it&#8217;s not a guarantee of anything, given how volatile the gaming hardware space has been of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When rumors and leaks about the internals of the upcoming PlayStation 6 Portable handheld started to emerge, we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-526670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}