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Microsoft XBox 360 Falcon |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
In response to the challenge from the war of Game Consoles, Microsoft reacts with project Falcon. Falcon is the name for the latest internal electronics in the Xbox 360. It will have an IBM microprocessor and an AMD/ATI graphics chip that are manufactured in a 65-nanometer production process. These are cost-reduced chips that do the same thing as their 90-nanometer predecessors, but they’re smaller.
There are a few benefits with smaller chips. It reduces the risks of overheating, as they won’t generate as much heat, one of the main reasons behind Microsoft’s billion-dollar write-off for repairs and extended warranties — are much lower. The chips may also cost half of what it took to make them before because they use less material and fewer manufacturing steps to produce.
Further up, there will be 45-nanometer production after 65-nanometer, probably in one or two years later.
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