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Hot off the comp.arch discussion mill, looks like the PowerPC might be at the heart of the next generation XBox. I’d speculate that this is down to either cost reasons or heat disserpation reasons. An ix86 always struck me as a bad choice for a console, though it obviously made good sense from Microsoft’s point of view, as it let them leverage all their existing skills and programmer base. Xeons make cool server processors, but a games console could probably survive with something lighter.

Link: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1371642,00.asp