Next-gen Xbox chips for dev kits in production?

Charlie Demerjian from SemiAccurate claims the next-gen Xbox chips are currently in production, these chips will end up in developer kits. The site believes the next Xbox console will once again have a PowerPC-based processor, and possibly a Radeon-based graphics chip from AMD.

If you recall, when we last mentioned the XBox next GPU/GPU/APU chip called Oban, it had just taped out. That was 6 weeks ago or so, and one thing we said in the article was that the devs we queried before that was written all said, �No clue, haven�t heard anything from Microsoft about it yet�. Fair enough, and given the number of them saying the same thing, we rapidly came to the conclusion that there was no info floating. Microsoft had not done any external briefings yet.

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Now for the new stuff. The XBox Next/720 Oban chip is in initial production. Sources at a foundry with a blue logo, confirm that Oban wafers started running in the final days of 2011. Sources on the other side of the continent in Redmond when questioned, said, �Who the f*&$ told you that? I am going to f#*&ing rip someone�s head off�. We at SemiAccurate take this as confirmation that the initial sources were in the right ballpark.

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