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[Posted by: Steve]

Microsoft has devised a GPU and CPU combo to power the Xbox 360...

According to Venture Beat, the Vole's engineers wanted to shrink the size of the Xbox 360 board and reduce the number of chips in the hardware. This meant fewer fans and heatsinks, which reduced the size of the power supply unit and brought power consumption down.

Microsoft builds a Franken-processor

08/24/2010

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