65nm Xbox 360 coming this fall
If you are unaware of what exactly this means, I shall try my best to explain. A 65 nanometer processor is the most advanced lithographic node that’s used in CMOS semiconductor fabrication… ok, that doesn’t help none. Ok, ok… look at the processor inside your computer. Odds are, that’s 65nm. K? Did that make sense? …no? …shit. I’m just going to move on with the article, and if you don’t know what I’m getting at… sorry.
Either way, Microsoft will be switching over from the 90nm to 65nm by the fall, because (in part, anyways) the smaller and cooler chip will allow Microsoft to redesign the guts of the machine, making it cheaper to mass produce. What this means is before too long (a little more than a year, I suspect), we could be seeing Microsoft cutting the prices on the 360. But not for a while yet. It’s enough for me to want to hold off on getting the Elite until the fall or winter, when the new processor is implemented into the console design. After all, it could mean the difference between lasting six months, and six years.
Microsoft, Xbox 360, 56nm, Intel, processor, 90nm
May 1st, 2007 at 5:49 am
I think what the author was trying to say was:
-Smaller chips use less material and cost less.
-Smaller circuit in electronics tend to use less power so your power supply should shrink an run up your electrical bill less
- Newer chips that do the job of and older chip usually have fewer parts because the manufacturer has found tricks to do more work. So fewer parts mean cheaper chips. just look at the # of do-dads on the chip above.