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More On IBM's Next-Gen Xbox Chipset Win

Posted by simoniker on from the jump-up-showdown dept.

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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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fuck the norm & fight the war JIIIIIHAAAAD

  2. 1st Post - slashdot's best game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    slashdot's best game on the net.. 1st post

  3. Re:Whose roots where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Q: What's the difference between Pepsi and Kobe Bryant?

    A: Pepsi doesn't come in white cans.

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  4. MODS ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who modded this down as redundant? It's a perfectly good question and a reasonable observation. Mod it up.

  5. Re:A question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut the hell up you fucking perv. Everyone knows you are a man. Get out of here, freak.

  6. and i hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you get fucked up the ass repeatedly for being a pro-MS little bitch.

  7. moderator trolls by frovingslosh · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

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  8. Interesting to note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think it's interesting to note that with the X-Box, most people just NEO LETS SMITH TAKE HIM OVER, BLOWS UP ALL THE CLONES, TRINITY DIES.

    The Matrix is not destroyed.

    Sorry to spoil it.

  9. That's not what I heard... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I heard that Trinity, driven insane with greed, bites off Neo's finger while stealing teh spoke and falls into Mt DOOM.

  10. Re:Whose roots where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't get it. Who's Kobe Bryant?