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Microsoft Developing Console Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-i've-seen-everything dept.

The Cheesecake writes "The New York Times is running an article that says that Microsoft is looking into designing and developing microchips. These will primarily be for the next generation of the Xbox. They also mention it could be used for things like voice recognition. They look to be doing this through a process designed by UC Berkley which makes it possible to reconfigure computer designs without the cost of making finished chips."

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  1. Gotta spend! by iluvcapra · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gotta spend that 10-digit R&D budget on something. Anything.

    Lots of R&D projects make MSFT look like a buy with growth potential. Competent maintenance of a core business (like Windows or Office) would make it look like Otis Elevator.

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  2. DRM Enforcement and/or Removing Mod Capabilities by Numbah+One · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if Uncle Bill and Uncle Steve are looking to enforce DRM through hardware or remove (or severely restrict) the ability to mod-chip the next-gen Xbox.

  3. Re:Microsoft Invents FPGA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly, what could be possibly be the satisfaction in making up nonsensical things like this in order to ridicule them? Could there possibly be a cheaper form of argumentation? Nowhere in the article is anything that anyone with brain function could possibly construe as "Microsoft Invents FPGA".