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ARM to play in games consoles, says analyst

Peter Clarke, EETimes
6/7/2011 6:29 AM EDT

LONDON – ARM is set to fight the established order in the games console market, which means variants of PowerPC, according to market research company Semicast Research. Semicast forecasts that Microsoft will increasingly focus on being an ARM house from mobile devices through games consoles as part of a convergence strategy and could use Nvidia Corp. as its ARM chip provider of choice for the next Xbox games console.