Microsoft unveiled some of the power of their new Xbox One.
"In talking up the innards of its upcoming gaming console, Microsoft didn’t reveal any new capabilities of the One—due this November—during a presentation at the Hot Chips conference Monday at Stanford University. But company executives discussed the so-called “speeds and feeds” of the main Xbox One processor in detail, as well as the problems that the new Kinect team had to overcome."
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047482/xbox-ones-massive-custom-cpu-can-pick-you-out-of-a-lineup.html
Notable pieces of information, were some of the new slides on the technical specs of the APU/SOC (System on a Chip).
Image Source: TechHive, http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/08/xbox-one-gpu-diagram-100051501-orig.png
Makes it a pretty formidable SoC, however, based on the calculations of the GPU, it still puts it inline with an HD 7780 (between a HD 7770 and 7790.)
For those Kinect enthusiasts, there was information for you too:
"The image sensor chip also controls a 1080p camera that can capture video for Skype or other purposes. Kinect now has a 70-degree viewing angle and can detect movement in larger spaces, ranging from around 0.8 meters to 4.2 meters away. Now it also doesn’t matter if the lighting in the room is good or poor. Kinect can also detect up to six players at a time now"
Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/26/microsoft-disclosed-details-for-the-main-processor-and-the-kinect-image-processor-in-the-xbox-one-video-game-console-today-at-a-chip-design-conference-those-details-are-critical-for-the-kind-of-expe/#CHmQsWBiLPgyKgSy.99
Another question a few of us had, was the actual architecture of the Jaguar core being x86, x64, or x86-64? Turns out the Jaguar cores are x64, according to Venturebeat.
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