Next Xbox 'to boast ridiculously powerful 16-core CPU'

[Zappykins]

smbu2000 said:

selnor said:
Just also thought about this.
Xbox 360 came out in 2005. The 360 has a 6 threaded 3 core PowerPC based Processor running at 3.2ghz. When the 360 was first announced PC's were still using single core processors. In fact when the 360 released only 1 or 2 PC's actually had a dual core processor.

Looking at this rumour it looks perfectly feasible. Basically we have 8 core CPUS on the market. By xmas 2013 there will be 16 core CPUS here.

When the 360 launched a dual core Pentium at 2.4ghz costed around $350. But yet the 3 core Xbox 360 was fantasticly priced for its power at the time. $479.99.

1 or 2? Well AMD had their Athlon 64 X2 dual core cpu out in May 2005. I remember I really wanted one although I just had an Athlon 64 at the time. On the Apple side, IBM released their dual core PowerPC G5 chip in October 2005. Prior to these "dual core" were just SMP systems, having 2 (or more) single core cpu's on one board working together.

In January 2006, Intel released their Core Duo dual core cpu. (which is also when Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel cpu's)

You really are supporting what he is saying.  I was working in IT at the time and the coming out of the X360 with a triple core was very strange.  There were few things that even could use dual CPU's as an advantage, so MS putting three CPU's was just beyond weird.  Why would you do that? and I thought it would be a complete nightmare for the programmers.

Plus, 3 is just an odd number to divide buy.

Turns out it was a great move, and even the PS3 which came out a year later, was barely (around 5%) more powerful; which is about negligible.  For example to go from 720P to 1080P is more than 60% and not all that noticeable.

I hope these rumors are right and the next Xbox is uber powerful.