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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 29th Oct 2009 00:13, Post No: 436 lol if this dumb a.ss move by microsoft actually happens (live annual subscription up to £80 a year) then considder the 360 100% dead, they should lower the cost not up it like they did with the arcade in september (was £130 now £160) and its all to do with the euro exchange only the in the UK we use pounds not sh.it.ty euros.
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 12th Oct 2009 01:09, Post No: 435 yooooooo man dis is wack ;)
	By: Arc1991 Added:Mon 28th Sep 2009 17:55, Post No: 434 same here, not botherd what system its on just sop long as the system acctualy works, and i ahte for you for winding me up lol -_-' and yeh im english =) and proud (H)
	By: Anonymous Added:Mon 28th Sep 2009 16:34, Post No: 433 lol arc1991 at least were both english judging by your slang words oh and i was just winding you up and it worked a treat. and fanboys only go on about one system like there life depends on it you dont. end of the day i dont realy care about any particular system just as long as ive got games to play on them.
	By: Arc1991 Added:Thu 24th Sep 2009 18:27, Post No: 432 no they aint, ur just to ignorant to read back in the comments, now anyway where were we before the anmos started turning to retards
	By: Anonymous Added:Thu 24th Sep 2009 17:04, Post No: 431 lol post 430 your a fanboy just shut up your starting to get on everyones nerves all your comments are fanboy comments
	By: Arc1991 Added:Wed 23rd Sep 2009 20:53, Post No: 430 my god -_- do u even read the comments u half wit, read back about 5 pages, n catch up, acctualy dont, read post 422 ffs tht is not a fanboy comment
	By: Anonymous Added:Wed 23rd Sep 2009 16:43, Post No: 429 lol arc1991 you go on about ps3 out selling the 360 in the ps3 comments yet you say your not a fanboy with that typical fanboy comment. all round gamer more like all round moaner
	By: Arc1991 Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 19:44, Post No: 428 last comment by me btw
	By: Anonymous Added:Sun 20th Sep 2009 19:43, Post No: 427 right first im a ps3 fanboy, then im a 360 fanboy? make up ur mind ppl, at least i aint i sayin that any console is better, read ma comments and ulls ee im an all round gamer. i may prefer the 360 to the PS3, but i know the ps3 has its ups, like blu-ray and stuff like tha, so dont call me a fanboy if u dont even know me!