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The Truth About Last Year's Xbox 360 Recall
chrplace forwards an article in which Gartner's Brian Lewis offers his perspective on what led to last year's Xbox 360 recall. Lewis says it happened because Microsoft wanted to avoid an ASIC vendor. "Microsoft designed the graphic chip on its own, cut a traditional ASIC vendor out of the process, and went straight to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., he explained. But in the end, by going cheap — hoping to save tens of millions of dollars in ASIC design costs, Microsoft ended up paying more than $1 billion for its Xbox 360 recall. To fix the problem, Microsoft went back to an unnamed ASIC vendor based in the United States and redesigned the chip, Lewis added. (Based on a previous report, the ASIC vendor is most likely the former ATI Technologies, now part of AMD.)"
SliNg, return it to blue, rubber the public eye: has ground to a To the politically 7members all over
"HOPEFULLY a price reduction" - your hope is in vain.
Considering Microsoft is a software company and hardly a hardware company (most of their keyboards/mice the only non-gaming hardware sold under their name are produced by other people) so seeing their GPU fail is nothing spectacular...
I'm such an idiot that I didn't even take a moment to realise what GP was getting too...
Give him his troll rating. There are some hardware engineers at microsoft. We all make mistakes. Cut 'em some slack. I didn't think MS had any hardware engineers working on it, or at least not forming the bulk... But then I remembered the cash and how stupid I can be.
He looked like a scarecrow at the last ADC. I wonder if I should dump all my Apple stock now. Once he's gone, they'll descend back into the crapper that they crawled out of with the invention of the iPod.
BTW, I propose a windfall profits tax for Apple. They've had too much success recently, and have surpassed an arbitrary threshold from a decent amount of profit to alot of profit. People are sick and tired of paying $400 for a damned cell phone! Won't someone please think of the lower-class? Where is their federally-subsidized iPhone for God's sake? Let's tax the shit out of Apple. That'll encourage them to flood the market with iPhones, thereby forcing the price down into the $99 range where it belongs.