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superchunk on 18 September 2012
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drkohler said:
superchunk said:

While I haven't taken much stock in it, there is at least one recent rumor that MS has decided to forgo the original Power7 CPU and follow Sony's similar approach with an AMD APU for the same reasons.

That is highly unlikely. Kinect2 (looking at those leaked docs and more obvious clues) requires massive amounts of processing power. AMD's processors are currently considerably weaker than Intel stuff or any Power7 stuff - the rumoured quadcore Jaguar chip for the PS4 is a sad joke in itself. A six core Power7 looks like a good compromise between power and price.

The Jaguar chip is not the main rumor, read my OP. The Jaguar chip is a mobile/netbook based chip. That part is clearly wrong.

However, Sony is going with a 4core APU according to everything leaked so far.

As for Kinect2, the original Kinect had more cameras and a CPU built into the device. MS removed that to reduce costs. Kinect2 is likely just a more advanced version of what was originally built. It very well may have a small mobile type CPU built into it to offset the power from the main console as well as re-adding in the cameras that were removed.