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Xbox One GPU Deal Costs over $3 Billion

By: | Xbox 360 News | May 28, 2013

Ex-AMD employee Bob Feldstein has revealed that a deal struck up between Microsoft and AMD for the Xbox One is worth more than $3 billion.


Posting via his Linked In profile, the former AMD vice president of Strategic Development stated that AMD had signed a multi-year deal with Microsoft valued at over $3 billion. The posting also revealed that AMD provided a "custom silicon solution" to Microsoft for the Xbox One.


Feldstein is now the vice president of Technology Licensing at Nvidia.

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Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Business Yusuf Mehdi has claimed that next-generation console sales could hit one billion though Microsoft is yet to provide a sales forecast for the Xbox One.


The Xbox One is being launched later this year and offers a 500GB hard drive, 8GB of RAM, a Blu-ray drive, 64-bit architecture, Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, and is said to be "nearly silent."

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