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Slimebeast on 21 June 2012
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superchunk said:
Slimebeast said:

For CPU it says ARM/X86.

Then under Backwards compatibility it says PPC for Power-PC.

As far as I know X86 is en entirely different architecture from Power-PC and the only big ones who make X86 CPUs are Intel and AMD.

Anyway, you are probably right. My fanboyism towards AMD just hopes AMD gets to make the CPU. Even if the doc suggested x86 (AMD/Intel) then that has probably changed. You have kept good track of the rumors.

 

Ah yeah PPC is RISC architecture. My bad. For some reason I was thinking it was x86 too.

Either way... all rumors that I'm aware of for 720 show PPC as the CPU so yeah, I think they decided to ditch that idea at some point. Maybe it costs less to just have one CPU design that would also allow backwards compatibiliy than having a new design plus 360s CPU. Maybe they realized how much it costs PS3 to do that same idea originally with CELL and PS2s old CPU in the original skus.

Yeah, reading that X720 would have seperate units for BC was almost a shock. A good shock though because it proves MS think BC is important enought to put it in there one way or another.

Further, if X720 has BC then by all means Sony should have backwards compability too, don't you think?

What else have you picked up from the document?

Will it have 4GB total RAM shared between CPU and GPU or will the GPU have another 2GB of video-RAM perhaps? So 6GB in total. (I hope so)

I hated their focus on platform integration, kinect this and glasses that. And their target for hardware power in X720 in that Doc said everething between x4 to x8. But I want x10.