Is this Xi3 computer called Piston Valve's Steam Box?

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UPDATE: Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter has offered his take on the Steam-powered Piston.
"Piston's form factor and specs strongly suggest that what we are seeing here is an implementation of AMD's 'Fusion' APU, which combines a quad-core CPU with an entry-level gaming graphics solution on one piece of silicon - we've covered the current-gen APUs out there - Trinity for laptops and Virgo for desktops. Trinity dukes it out with current-gen consoles from a performance perspective while Virgo is significantly better.
"Assuming a release some time in the future, Piston could feature a revised version of that chipset - and probably the laptop iteration considering the small power draw. The next-gen APUs are believed to contain considerable CPU refinements along with graphics based on AMD's more recent GCN architecture. Combine that with a stripped down Linux and a decent driver and we could have a cheap-to-produce box with decent - though not mind-blowing - performance. The big concern here would be the price - Xi3 make miniature computers with a premium price-point way beyond what you would expect to pay for a console."
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