{"id":651311,"date":"2013-04-09T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=424140"},"modified":"2013-04-09T07:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T11:40:28","slug":"microsoft-reportedly-switching-to-amd-for-next-gen-xbox-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651311","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reportedly switching to AMD for next-gen Xbox chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/microsoft-xbox-720-amd-processor-424140\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/xbox-360-1.jpg?w=650&amp;h=489&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Xbox 720\" title=\"Xbox\" \/><\/a><\/center>When the next-generation Xbox arrives later this year, it will likely <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/24\/playstation-4-specs-leak-303675\/\">come with the same eight-core AMD chips<\/a> being used by <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=sne\">SNE<\/a>) rival PlayStation 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-08\/microsoft-said-to-adopt-amd-chips-for-next-xbox-console.html\">Unnamed sources have told <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) will be making the switch from IBM (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=ibm\">IBM<\/a>) chips to AMD chips because it wants to &#8220;cut the cost of building machines and get developers to create more titles.&#8221; <em>Bloomberg<\/em> says that game developers will benefit from having common specifications for next-generation consoles since it should become easier to develop across multiple platforms. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/21\/microsoft-xbox-720-specs-rumor-299975\/\">next-generation Xbox is rumored to feature<\/a>\u00a0an 8-core 1.6GHz processor, 8GB of RAM, an 800MHz graphics processor, a\u00a050GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive, and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/TxDh8YfTZ_Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the next-generation Xbox arrives later this year, it will likely come with the same eight-core AMD chips being used by Sony&#8217;s (SNE) rival PlayStation 4. Unnamed sources have told Bloomberg that Microsoft (MSFT) will be making the switch from IBM (IBM) chips to AMD chips because it wants to &#8220;cut the cost of building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}