New Xbox 360 Chipset Cuts Cost & Overheating Risks
Code-named "Falcon," Microsoft has developed a smaller chipset for its Xbox 360 console, which will cut manufacturing costs, power requirements and the not-so-well-hidden epidemic of 360 overheating.
With an IBM microprocessor and an ATI graphics chip both writ small in a 65-nanometer process (considerably smaller and more efficient than the original 90 nm process), the move paves the way for a potential price reduction and perhaps gives Microsoft some breathing room while to address the overwhelming failure rate. Taken in conjunction with last week's unprecedented billion-dollar repair cost apology and warranty-extension, it's obvious that Microsoft is taking the situation very seriously and doing everything they can reasonably do to improve the 360 experience.
So here I sit, with my fully-functioning launch-date-acquired dinosaur of a 360, which never makes too much noise, never red-ring-of-deaths me, and never even gets particularly warm, wondering what all the fuss is about. Having said that, of course, I look forward to an immediate and total meltdown of my system - because that's how karma works.
One of these days, karma...
Microsoft develops new Xbox 360 chipset [GamesIndustry.biz]
tiny dancer
Posted to Miscellany on 9 July 2007
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Oh, i was like you tiny, and then just after the last update mine started red ringing (Just before the halo 3 BETA) its an on and off things though, I can get it on, I just takes persistence, so there you have it... but with the new warrenty which Im assuming applies here in AUS, Im thinking Ill finally send it in :)
Well, if you do get a problem from karma, here's a premptive hug for you, Tiny!