How The 360 Works

The always informative How Stuff Works site has an article today entitled How the Xbox 360 Works. From the piece: "The other interesting thing to note about the Xbox 360 CPU is that each core is capable of processing two threads simultaneously. Think of a thread as a set of instructions for a program's job. The core processes these instructions and does the heavy lifting to get the job done. A conventional processor is traditionally capable of running a single execution thread. Because the Xbox 360 cores can each handle two threads at a time, the 360 CPU is the equivalent of having six conventional processors in one machine."

Comments

I thought it _didn't_ work?

[cryptoz]

I thought something like 15% of Xbox's *didn't* work. Source? Slashdot. Surprise, surprise. It's funny. Laugh.

Wht makes Xbox run

[Gilzors]

4 words: A wizard did it.

Really?

[oahazmatt]

That's how it works? And here I thought it was just the latest console using Hype technology.