The only confirmed change is moving the silicon from 7nm to 6nm to improve yields and simplify the cooling solution so they can drop the liquid metal. Outside that not much.I don't know if it's very likely to happen, probably supply chain issues lasting that entire 18 months. But i can tell you sony has not spilled the beans of any refresh plans to TCL.
Without citing any other information, i can 100 billion percent assure you if for some magical fairy tale reason a conversation did happen, the NDA's would prevent them from revealing it at a PUBLIC PRESS CONFERENCE.
Ya'll are falling for the clickbait trap.