Silver_2000
10-27-2005, 04:45 PM
The next-generation game machine is due to go on sale (http://news.com.com/Xbox+360+to+hit+shelves+before+Thanksgiving/2100-1043_3-5865786.html?tag=nl) Nov. 22 in North America and a few weeks later in Europe and Japan. The base price for the Xbox 360 will be $299.
IBM said the chip features a customized version of IBM's 64-bit PowerPC core. The chip includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than 3GHz.
The chip features 165 million transistors and is fabricated using IBM's 90-nanometer technology to reduce heat and improve performance. The chip's 21.6GB-per-second front side bus architecture was customized to meet the throughput and latency requirements of the Xbox 360 gaming platform software, the company said.
Brown said the processor is 168 square millimeters in area. However, he declined to reveal its code name or say how much power it consumes--partly because IBM expects the number to decrease with coming refinements.
Well the $299 Xbox 360 will have approx 4x the processor power of my current desktop. :eek2: :tu:
IBM said the chip features a customized version of IBM's 64-bit PowerPC core. The chip includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than 3GHz.
The chip features 165 million transistors and is fabricated using IBM's 90-nanometer technology to reduce heat and improve performance. The chip's 21.6GB-per-second front side bus architecture was customized to meet the throughput and latency requirements of the Xbox 360 gaming platform software, the company said.
Brown said the processor is 168 square millimeters in area. However, he declined to reveal its code name or say how much power it consumes--partly because IBM expects the number to decrease with coming refinements.
Well the $299 Xbox 360 will have approx 4x the processor power of my current desktop. :eek2: :tu: