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Microsoft unveils AMD powered Xbox One

May 22nd 2013

Although little was said about the processors in the new Xbox One, we believe it is a custom version of AMD’s newest APU with an eight Jaguar core CPUs and a big multi core GPU. The GPU will not likely not be a Radeon 7000 or 8000 core, but more similar to the UMA design AMD supplied for the Xbox 360. In addition, AMD’s APU’s encode and decode engines will likely be in the chip.

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