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In Theory: will next-gen Xbox run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM processor?
Could the next generation Xbox run on an ARM-based processor? The possibility has been mooted ever since Microsoft's FT…
However, Microsoft commentator Brad Sams found something interesting last week: a Qualcomm job ad discussing "the next generation of Surface and Xbox products built on Snapdragon solutions". Based on everything we know about how Microsoft works, what its intended strategy is, and its comments on delivering the "largest technological leap ever in a generation", it's difficult to reconcile any of this with the notion of an Xbox console running on Snapdragon hardware. Ironically, it's PlayStation 5 Pro that gives us some idea of where the platform holders are heading: sacrificing a much larger GPU in favour of ray tracing support and (inevitably) machine learning hardware.
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