Microsoft's Xbox 720 to use AMD chips

Danny Palmer
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Cost reduction drive behind switch from IBM's Power PC for next-generation of games system

Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console is going to use AMD processors. Bloomberg reports that sources close to the "Xbox 720" games system say it will use an AMD computer chip instead of the I...

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