360 Goes 32nm in 2009? News

IBM confirms that its well on the way to delivering 32nm chips to its partners in late 2009...

By Chris Leyton
Posted: 10/12/2007

IBM, in conjunction with its development partners (AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung) today announced that it has achieved a new approach to assist in the production of 32nm processors.

The approach, which could theoretically find itself employed in cheaper and quieter Xbox 360's towards the end of 2009, marks an industry first by using high-k/metal gate (HKMG) process technology in 32nm processors.

Although it doesn't take too much of a stretch to imagine cheaper Xbox 360's two years from now, the news at least suggests that Microsoft and its manufacturing partner, Chartered, are well on course to continue chopping away at the manufacturing costs and will be virtually giving them away for Christmas 2009. Of course we will all be talking about the 360's successor by then, but we suspect Microsoft will want to continue supporting the 360 for longer than it did with its predecessor.

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	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 25th Jun 2009 11:34, Post No: 384 Somebody mother[#@!?] put Disgaea on the 360 already.
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 17:59, Post No: 383 [#@!?] me
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 02:08, Post No: 382 xbox360 has better graphics better games and is better period
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 23rd Jun 2009 02:06, Post No: 381 ps3 sucks xbox 360 rules
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 22nd Jun 2009 11:29, Post No: 380 lol the hdd in the ps3 cant be changed very easily, for a start youll need to obtain the firmware from sony to put on the new drive (if it works and doesnt bri[#@!?]r ps3) youll also need to backup all your game saves/dlc. plus if you break the paint on the screws on the hdd bay you will invalidate your warrenty on your ps3 so if you screw up the ps3 youll have to buy a new one as sony wont touch it. not so simple now is it.
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 22nd Jun 2009 11:28, Post No: 379 lol the hdd in the ps3 cant be changed very easily, for a start youll need to obtain the firmware from sony to put on the new drive (if it works and doesnt bri[#@!?]r ps3) youll also need to backup all your game saves/dlc. plus if you break the paint on the screws on the hdd bay you will invalidate your warrenty on your ps3 so if you screw up the ps3 youll have to buy a new one as sony wont touch it. not so simple now is it.
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 15th Jun 2009 19:47, Post No: 378 @Post 377 The big diffrence is the hdd can be changed very easily in the Ps3, because it uses a 2.5" drive. The max size it can take at the moment is 500gb, which cost about £70.
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 04th Jun 2009 06:02, Post No: 377 yes the price of the hdd is very expencive in comparison to a 1tb hdd but you can only get a 1tb drive on a pc, what if m$ did bring out a 1tb hdd for the 360 what kind of price do you think m$ is going to charge for it $300 minimum. all you need to do is look at how much sony upped the price of the ps3 when they launched the 160gb ps3, just compare the price of an 80gb ps3 to a 160gb then just take a guess at how much a 1tb ps3 would be.
	By: Anonymous Added:Tue 02nd Jun 2009 14:17, Post No: 376 You know, it sounds good but when are they going to drop the price of the external hard drives so I could actually have the space to download this stuff? I can buy an external USB/eSata drive with over a terabyte for the same price Microshaft is charging for the 120 GB version. They are just shooting themselves in the foot though as it keeps me from buying more downloadable content.
	By: SegaBoy Added:Tue 02nd Jun 2009 10:35, Post No: 375 Well it's evidently scripted to high heaven, but gotta take my hat off to Molyneux - at least he's reaching for the stars again.