drkohler on 06 April 2012
| Soundwave said: 16 cores? I could sorta see this if they're doing some crazy next-gen Kinect stuff and require a CPU to do a ton of motion sensing/capture stuff/voice recognition, that could chew up a lot of the CPU "cores". And then if you have a lite version of Windows 8 running on it too ... |
The 8core PP7 has a die size around 560mm^2. Needles to see that a 16core PP7 does not exist.
It's a four cores 4 threaded die = 16 threads, not 16 cores.
And Kinect2 quite probably requires one core/thread and the on-die GPU to process the images. Image size will at least quadruple from the measly 320*200 Kinect images we have now if they want to have GAMES on their NextBox.
