Der har været lidt delte meninger om Microsofts næste Xbox-konsol, altså om det sker overhovedet, hvordan stemningen er internt, og også om hvorvidt dette bliver et eksternt partnerskab med en tredjepart, ligesom Asus ROG Ally Xbox.
Lige meget hvordan den næste generation kommer til at se ud, så lader det til at Microsoft kommer til at lancere et eller andet for at markere starten på den nye generation, og at dette vil lande i 2027 - nogenlunde samtidig som PlayStation 6.
Moore's Law is Dead har udgivet endnu video, hvor han påstår at Microsoft lige nu taler med partnere om den her lancering. Den AMD APU der kommer til at agere hjertet af maskinen hedder, sjovt nok, "Magnus", og beskrives således:
"The Magnus APU will be composed of two separate chiplets - an SoC (system on a chip) that will handle CPU duties, and a GPU based on similar technologies to AMD's desktop Radeon products. The CPU is slated to be made with AMD's Zen 6 architecture, and will feature up to 3 cores, along with 8 Zen 6c cores, all of which share a 12 MB L3 cache. The GPU, on the other hand, will have 68 RDNA5 compute units, with 4 shader engines. The hardware is expected to feature a 24 MB L2 cache, which has been noted as being equal to five times the amount on the Xbox Series X.
While no concrete details on aspects like memory have been revealed as of yet, the memory bus is set to be 192-bit, with the hardware being possible to configure to use 24 GB, 36 GB or 48 GB of RAM. Along with this, AI workloads like image upscaling and Microsoft Copilot will be handled by an 110 TOPS (trillion operations per second) NPU that can go down to 46 TOPS for low-power mode. The total power requirements for the Magnus APU are estimated to be somewhere between 250 to 350 watts."
Men igen, er det Microsoft selv der fremstiller den? Bliver den mere "åben" som en PC med udskiftelige dele, og hvordan bliver deres generelle designfilosofi?
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