Xbox boss Phil Spencer has stated the company is still working to increase Xbox Series X/S stock – and has even asked AMD for assistance.
Nearly three months after the release of the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, Microsoft is still struggling to meet demand for its new consoles, with stock shortages expected to carry on until at least April 2021. But, during a recent appearance on Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hyrb’s (AKA Major Nelson) video podcast (via VGC), Xbox boss Phil Spencer assured fans that the company is « working as hard as we can » to make more Xbox Series X stock available, with the executive revealing that he has even reached out to AMD to ask if the processor manufacturer could increase production to help with demand. « I get some people [asking], ‘why didn’t you build more? Why didn’t you start earlier? Why didn’t you ship them earlier?’ All of those things,” Spencer told Hyrb. « It’s really just down to physics and engineering. We’re not holding them back: we’re building them as fast as we can. We have all the assembly lines going. I was on the phone last week with Lisa Su at AMD [asking], ‘how do we get more?’ So it’s something that we’re constantly working on. » AMD manufactures the GPU and CPU for both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, with the console’s custom designed processor made up of an 8 core AMD Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2-class GPU.
