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Xbox 2 manufacturing plans are on schedule - TSMC
Rob Fahey 11:14 20/09/2004
Reassurance on next-gen development progress
A representative of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the company tasked
with fabricating the chips being used in Microsoft's next Xbox console, has
told the media that the development of the console is proceeding to plan.
Speaking at a press conference, senior vice president Kenneth Kin said that
the firm's manufacturing plans for Xbox 2 chips is "proceeding according to
plan," scotching recent murmuring about a possible further delay to
Microsoft's schedule for the system.
TSMC has been tapped to develop the core chipsets for the Xbox 2 platform,
including ATI's GPU chip, which the graphics company said was nearing the
end of its development stage earlier this month.
It's believed that Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox 2 in late 2005,
which would give it a significant headstart over its rivals, as neither Sony
nor Nintendo is expected to have a new home console ready until 2006.
Xbox 2 - which is reportedly codenamed Xenon in the development community -
will feature multiple IBM Power5 processors, an SIS motherboard chipset and
the aforementioned ATI graphics unit. Early development kits for the
hardware have already been sent to selected developers, based on Apple
PowerMac G5 units running a custom version of the Windows NT kernel.
Xbox 2 manufacturing plans are on schedule - TSMC
Rob Fahey 11:14 20/09/2004
Reassurance on next-gen development progress
A representative of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the company tasked
with fabricating the chips being used in Microsoft's next Xbox console, has
told the media that the development of the console is proceeding to plan.
Speaking at a press conference, senior vice president Kenneth Kin said that
the firm's manufacturing plans for Xbox 2 chips is "proceeding according to
plan," scotching recent murmuring about a possible further delay to
Microsoft's schedule for the system.
TSMC has been tapped to develop the core chipsets for the Xbox 2 platform,
including ATI's GPU chip, which the graphics company said was nearing the
end of its development stage earlier this month.
It's believed that Microsoft is planning to launch the Xbox 2 in late 2005,
which would give it a significant headstart over its rivals, as neither Sony
nor Nintendo is expected to have a new home console ready until 2006.
Xbox 2 - which is reportedly codenamed Xenon in the development community -
will feature multiple IBM Power5 processors, an SIS motherboard chipset and
the aforementioned ATI graphics unit. Early development kits for the
hardware have already been sent to selected developers, based on Apple
PowerMac G5 units running a custom version of the Windows NT kernel.
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