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October 25, 2005
IBM to disclose details on new XBOX Chip
ARMONK, N.Y. -- International Business Machines Corp. is disclosing new technical details about the chip it designed for Microsoft Corp.'s second-generation Xbox game system, which is being manufactured by IBM and Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.
The chip, a customized version of IBM's Power line, includes the circuitry of three microprocessors and a special "vector" processing unit that handles 128 bits of data at a time, compared with 64 bits for other parts of the chip, IBM officials said. The chip, which operates at 3.2 gigahertz, also has unusually fast "bus" for transferring data with other components in the game console, they said.
IBM is making the disclosures at a chip conference today in Silicon Valley. The company is also announcing that IBM and Chartered have both begun making the chip at high volumes, as part of a plan to begin selling the new console on Nov. 22.
Posted by admin at October 25, 2005 02:13 PM