{"id":284245,"date":"2026-06-30T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:24:00","slug":"amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Backs Up PS6 Portable Rumors With &#8220;Zen 6 LP&#8221; Core Support in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\">AMD Backs Up PS6 Portable Rumors With &#8220;Zen 6 LP&#8221; Core Support in Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\">https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 18:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techpowerup.com\">www.techpowerup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When rumors and leaks about the internals of the upcoming PlayStation 6 Portable handheld started to emerge, we caught wind that the upcoming gaming handheld would feature a Zen 6c CPU 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 Sony&#8217;s recent hints that it is developing a standalone gaming handheld for the PS6 generation. The kernel update 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;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tpucdn.com\/img\/EyKooyWONcNIP7j0_thm.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tpucdn.com\/img\/xZTUTSLZu20nnZ9y_thm.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/> 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 rumors about Medusa Point APUs. 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.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD Backs Up PS6 Portable Rumors With &#8220;Zen 6 LP&#8221; Core Support in Linux https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/350429\/amd-backs-up-ps6-portable-rumors-with-zen-6-lp-core-support-in-linux&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}