{"id":88,"date":"2014-10-31T10:56:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:56:36","slug":"improved-xbox-one-processor-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Improved Xbox One Processor in Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from\u00a0<em>Eurogamer<\/em>\u2018s <em>Digital Foundry<\/em>, a smaller version of the Xbox One core processor is in development. The information comes not via Microsoft but from the LinkedIn profile of an AMD senior manager of the company\u2019s System On a Chip physical design.<\/p>\n<p>The manager\u2019s profile says that he \u201csuccessfully planned and executed the first APU for Microsoft\u2019s Xbox One Game Console in 28nm technology and a cost-reduced derivative in 20nm technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While a revised Xbox One console is, at minimum, a year away \u2013 more likely two or three \u2013 this shows that they\u2019re already working on designing it. The smaller chip would be nearly two times as dense with semiconductors and consume 25 percent less power than the current processor. It\u2019s even possible that they could eke a bit more power out of the chip, though it\u2019s not likely that we\u2019d see that on the consumer side.<\/p>\n<p><em>Digital Foundry<\/em> notes that shrinking the processor benefits Microsoft in a surprising number of ways. A cooler, smaller system means more working chips for the amount of material it takes to create the chips as well as less materials required for things like cooling, while a smaller system means smaller packaging and easier shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <em>Digital Foundry<\/em>\u2018s article for the full story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2014-smaller-cheaper-cooler-xbox-one-processor-in-development\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DIGITAL FOUNDRY<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from\u00a0Eurogamer\u2018s Digital Foundry, a smaller version of the Xbox One core processor is in development. The information comes not via Microsoft but from the LinkedIn profile of an AMD senior manager of the company\u2019s System On a Chip physical design. The manager\u2019s profile says that he \u201csuccessfully planned and executed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}