IBM unveils Xbox 360 Power-based chip
By
Rodrigo Chia
on October 26, 2005 - 4:05 PM
IBM this week unveiled the custom CPU that will equip the Xbox 360 videogame. The yet to be named processor, derived from the Power design, brings three multi-threaded cores operating at 3.2 GHz, 1 MB shared L2 cache and 5.4 Gb/s per-pin FSB. The 90-nm chip has 165 million transistors and is in production at the company’s East Fishkill (New York) fab and at Chartered Semiconductor (Singapore).
Originally at http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/news/IBM-unveils-Xbox-360-Power-based-chip/623