No no.. The Xenon (the XBox processor) is a multicore chip. Each core is not nearly as smart as the G5 (it looks dumber than a 601), but it can run 6 threads. It is just another way to use chip real-estate - instead of building a supersmart CPU they build 6 dumb ones and hope running six threads at once makes up for the individual stupidity.
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