Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News

Tom's Hardware Guide: Tom's Hard News: "The Xbox2, code-named 'Xenon', will include a IBM PowerPC processor, with a frequency of at least 3.5 GHz. The CPU consists of three independent cores; each of them will be able to issue two instructions per clock cycle. This allows games to use six symmetric hardware threads. At peak performance the CPU is expected to reach 21 billion instructions per second, according to the document. SiS will deliver the I/O hardware. "