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.

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whoever modded this down as Troll should get a permanent loss of moderation privledges. This post was completely on target.

This sort of nonsense has happened a lot, and to my posts too. Meta-moderation is NOT a valid option (although it might help a very little) because in most cases you can tell what context everything is posted in, so you can't say if a moderator was wrong is calling something redundant or even troll. But Shashdot is going down hill fast from this sort of abuse. The moderator who did this would be a good place to start.

And how is this apparently modded down multiple times as "troll"? (which also recently happened to me). The post was clearly not a troll, far from it.