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Xbox 360 Motherboard In-Depth
jshaped writes "As a follow-up to their previously popular article,
Anandtech has posted an in-depth look at the Xbox 360 motherboard. The IBM cpu core looks massive, and check out the ATI gpu with 2 dice on the package." From the article: "The original Xbox featured a 4-layer Intel motherboard, but given the incredible power requirements of the CPU and GPU on the Xbox 360's motherboard we would be astonished if the same were true today. Luckily with any console, especially early on in their life, you are getting a true bargain when it comes to the cost of hardware - so the number of layers on this PCB doesn't matter much to the end user, as Microsoft will absorb all costs above and beyond the core system's $299 price tag."
Pretty please? I keep expecting to see 2d10 in their photos.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
But you could say that about any computer in exenstance today, prices are going down while power is increasing. Now lets say power increases 2X every 18 months and price drops by 5% every 18 months (probably not accurate numbers but just go with me here). Over 20 years that is 2^13=8192 increase in speed for the average desktop system. And I its been too long sense I took calculus and dealt with natural logs but lets say the average home computer has gone from 2 grand to 500 thats a 75% drop. Oh F it.. as you can see the Xbox cost almost as much as a full computer of todays standards while the Atari cost a small fraction. The atari probably was a fraction of computing standards for the day.. So what am I getting at here. I have no Fing clue except our stats are stupid too!! :P