Interesting.
'Cause unless I'm smokin' discounted crack, IIRC, NVidia designed the whole kit 'n caboodle that Microsoft is using, other than the processor itself.
Much as I'd love to say "whee!", this might be a false rumor.
"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have recieved the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."