AMD's PS5-like APU is reportedly getting 16 full-fat Zen 5 cores

pcgamer.com:

The Ryzen 8000-series CPUs are shaping up to redefine both handhelds and gaming laptops, and the latest rumours suggest a mix of both chiplet, full-fat Zen 5, and Zen 5c cores going into them. That, and there's that monstrous integrated graphics core which is promising to be the gaming laptop chip we've been waiting for.

But as much as the Steam Deck is lauded as the device that made handheld gaming PCs a genuine 'thing', it's AMD's continued APU passion projects that have helped them evolve. The ROG Ally wouldn't have been possible without AMD's Z1 Extreme APU, and the raft of Ryzen 7 7840U-based handhelds following would have struggled without the exceptional red team silicon.

And that silicon lineage is only set to continue. Likely built with an eye on the handheld market is the AMD Strix Point chip, which is now rumoured to come sporting four full Zen 5 processor cores but also a healthy complement of Zen 5c cores, too. That means you can expect a 12-core, 24-thread APU at the heart of the next-gen handhelds coming out in 2024-25.

And if you have any concerns over that Zen 5c silicon just being the same sort of lowly, slightly second-rate core design as Intel's Efficient cores, well, the AMD version of Efficient cores are very different beasts. They've got all the good stuff, though with less cache, and come in a far smaller footprint compared to the non-c cores.

Because they're designed to go in power-constricted chassis, the fact they're only made for relatively low clock speeds works just fine in that environment. 

We'll see them first as Zen 4c cores in the upcoming Phoenix 2 chips, but those are seemingly an test run for Strix Point. Which, in short, is going to deliver more multi-threaded performance than you