X-Box 360 is getting a new CPU

[Triumph]

Apparently Microsoft is going to be using a new CPU in the X-Box 360 starting in the first quarter of 2007. Apparently it will be a smaller processor which will allow them to generate less heat for the unit. Considering all the complaints and issues with heat and the 360, this is a good thing. I do not get the impression that this CPU will be any more powerful than the current one.

The story:

MICROSOFT’S Xbox 360 games console will get a new CPU early next year.

Chip fab Chartered Semiconductor of Singapore says it will move the IBM-designed chippery to a 65 nanometre technology starting in the first quarter of 2007. The existing chip uses 90nm technology.

The smaller process means more chips per wafer and therefore more chips per buck. The smaller, thinner chip should also draw less power and generate less heat.

The console currently sports a pair of fans, together with an arrangement of heat pipes, to cool the three-core chip at its heart. Use of a new chip will allow the Vole to re-design the console, should it choose. Certainly, it will strip out redundant components to reduce the loss it currently makes on each box sold.

X-Box 360 gets new CPU

[mistA.WEEd]

It doesnt really matter to me, cuz i kno how to keep my xbox360 ventilated. Unless the CPU IS faster, highly doubt it, then i think microsoft should actually replace everyone's 360 and place new CPU's for the ppl who already had a 360.

[lpxxfaintxx]

Well, I'm glad I waited.