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More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win
Pieroxy writes "EE Times reports further details on Microsoft's use of IBM chips in its next generation Xbox game and consumer electronics devices, dealing a blow to Intel and providing a much needed boost for IBM's lossmaking chip business." An analyst claims that "IBM is likely to modify its most advanced G5 PowerPC silicon, which is being used in Apple Computer's fastest Macintosh desktops, for the embedded market, reducing the cache and cutting power consumption", and further comments: "This is likely to heat things up at Intel, but it is competition that is healthy for the industry. It's ironic that IBM, with its roots in the computer industry, doesn't supply the processors for the main portion of the personal computer industry. Intel does." We covered IBM's initial announcement as a section-specific story earlier today.
Since the Xbox 2 will ostensibly be running an MS-based operating system on a non-x86 chip... ...how long before we see Longhorn running there too?
... now they'll claim the XBOX 2 is a Mac because it is based on Mac hardware. "Those bastards won't let us put YellowDog on it!"
"Derp de derp."
By buying a heavily subsidized $200 game machine from Microsoft, and then adding a pirated disk drive, the Xbox can be used as a "poor man's PC, turning a $200 game machine into a $600 personal computer, which Microsoft doesn't like at all," Doherty said.
That may have led Microsoft to the PowerPC platform developed by IBM.
Because no OS runs on PowerPC platform... especially not the one people put onto the original Xbox.
-Eyston
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What a clueless geekboy.
Shut the fuck up. You are either a perv or a fucking CUNT BITCH. That is a FACT easily deduced from your nic.
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