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drkohler on 01 November 2012
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D-Joe said:
superchunk said:


A few months back they were rumored to have switced from IBM to x86 and likely AMD solution.

Literally a week or so ago it was  rumor relating directly to the higher end APUs.

Few months back?IBM to X86?eh...that rumor was talking about Intel CPU until few days ago another rumor said it change to AMD FX

The leak can be backtracked to the guy that sold a developer kit on ebay (which supposedly really was an earlier developer kit). The latest rumour talks about an AMD FX8xxx processor, which is an 8 core CPU, not an APU. If we assume that MS went from IBM to Intel/AMD. A VERY reasonable assumption since MS is strongly pushing to unify the PC/tablet/console hardware/(software=Windows 8) diversity, then an 8core FX8... processor is EXACTLY the right hardware for what was leaked in a MS paper about XBoxNext features a few weeks ago.

In the OP we currently have IBM, or a quad-core CPU/APU. This is definitely NOT what will end up in the XBoxNext. At least a six-core CPU is required and the path to eight cores is not that much more expensive. With current knowledge, I'd say an 8core processor like FX8...  is 95% certain in the XBoxNext.