Microsoft Xbox One Enters Mass Production, Receives CPU Frequency Boost

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday that its upcoming Xbox One game console had entered mass production and that it was on-track to be released in November this year on select markets. The company also announced that it had increased clock-speed of microprocessor inside the system-on-chip that powers Xbox One.

“We are on track for launch in November, we will announce the launch date shortly. We recently just went into full production, so we are now producing Xbox One consoles [in mass quantities]. We have had real good progress on the system; in fact, we just updated the CPU performance to 1.75GHz on top of the graphics performance improvement, so the system is really going to shine and the games look pretty incredible,” said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of marketing and strategy of interactive entertainment business, at Citi Global Technology Conference.

Previously, system-on-chip inside Microsoft Xbox One console had its general-purpose AMD Jaguar x86 cores operating at 1.60GHz, whereas graphics processing engine worked at 800MHz. In the recent months Microsoft and AMD managed to increase GPU clock-rate to 853MHz and CPU frequency to 1.75GHz. Higher clock-speeds should increase performance and eventually enable better video games.

According to Mr. Mehdi, Microsoft plans to build a record number of Xbox One game consoles for the launch this November and sell the highest amount of new consoles during the holiday season.

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