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Xbox Jasper 65nm chips all lined up

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Wonder..

If these ones will FINALLY work correctly, and not (if you are lucky) fail, or unlucky burn your house down..
posted by : Mak, 09 May 2008

What is this about?

Since when does IBM make Xeons? Xeons are x86's, the current XBox-360 uses a 3 core by 2X PPC that was supposedly already 65nm shrunk from the 90nm overheating original. IBM was late with decent 65nm which cost them (and AMD) phenomenally. The graphics chip is to be from TSMC, though it is now being from ATI. The story suggests a new one? To combine a graphics chip and cpu raises the question about what cpu, what gpu and what process. Is this about the XBox-360 or something else? Very confusing.
posted by : maguro_01, 10 May 2008

Xenon not Xeons

The CPU, named Xenon at Microsoft and "Waternoose" at IBM, is a custom triple-core PowerPC-based design by IBM.

Yea I got tripped up with the named too when I first read it.
posted by : Johnny, 11 May 2008

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