What Others Say

“At Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, California today, IBM announced the custom designed microprocessor built for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console is in production at the company’s East Fishkill, N.Y. fab and at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore. Together, IBM and Chartered’s common platform offers Microsoft a unique dual source capability that provides the highest level of manufacturing redundancy and flexibility.”

“The chip features a customized version of IBM’s industry leading 64-bit PowerPC core. The chip includes three of these cores, each with two simultaneous threads and clock speeds greater than 3 GHz. It features 165 million transistors and is fabricated using IBM’s 90 nanometer Silicon on Insulator (SOI) technology to reduce heat and improve performance. “

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