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Rumor: the new Xbox will mount an AMD x 86 and will not be backward compatible

The rumors are regarding the new console from Microsoft: the latest "leaked" comes from the website of the daily newspaper and Bloomberg would see the next Xbox using a PC-like architecture and mount an AMD x 86-64 chips, exactly as previously announced for PS4 and as previous rumor had already understood. The source of this news would be people with knowledge on the subject interviewed by Bloomberg.

And like other rumor had already aired, Bloomberg says that AMD will combine inside several multiple CPUs Jaguar that same GPU: according to the site architecture that is so different from the Xbox 360 would prevent backwards compatibility. However, this is not the last word on the subject: Xbox 360 is also architecturally quite different from the first Xbox yet MS has managed to make it compatible – with a selection of existing games-emulation and virtualization techniques.

As always, waiting for concrete news coming probably in late may, we invite you to take the news with due care.