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CNET News - Xbox One and its all-new hardware

2013-05-21
today so starting with our system it's connected and ready it's an elegant design that meets the needs of the new generation the heart of that system is raw power from 500 million transistors and 512 megs of ram in the xbox 360 to over five billion transistors in 8 gigabytes of RAM and Xbox one USB 3 0 Wi-Fi direct a blu-ray drive a native 64-bit architecture and variable power states all while delivering practically silent operation this is a modern powerful box engineered to deliver now and well into the future but it's how we Marshall that power how we create the system that works to deliver the world's greatest games and provides the flexibility to power entirely new connected experiences to do this we've brought technology from across Microsoft to create an industry first the soul of the new system is the xbox one architecture three operating systems in one the first is the best of our Xbox operating system made even better by providing deep in its and access to the hardware so that creators have no limits in harnessing the power of Xbox one for cinematic realism the second is the kernel of windows providing consistent access to web powered applications and experiences flexible powerful simple the third connects these two operating systems to create instant switching multitasking and effortless control only Microsoft and Xbox could bring this level of power performance and sophistication to the living room and it changes everything the xbox one architecture enables the new experiences that you just saw from Yousaf there's no waiting you can switch to your game like it's a TV channel flip you can snap Internet Explorer in the new Star Trek movie but how did the TV no use of and react to his voice we're bringing a new Kinect sensor paired with every xbox one which puts you at the center of your entertainment connect is completely redesigned to respond instantly to you your voice and your gestures voice is now more conversational it's faster and it supports the entire family and our new proprietary time-of-flight measures the time about 13 billionths of a second that it takes individual photons to bounce off of you to create unprecedented accuracy and precision over to gigabits of data per second to understand your world this is rocket science level stuff games and applications will create new experiences like you've never seen before
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