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Whoo-wee!!! M$ just RECENTLY contracted with SiS to DESIGN the South
Bridge chip for the xflop 1.5 full circle. This isn't manufacturing,
this is design. This is truly bizarre, they are still designing at this
stage. This just gets funnier and funnier as the weeks go by. The xflop
1.5 full circle was already looking like garbage but this thing is
really going to be slapped together in a rushed panic. Stop it, you are
killing me, I am laughing so hard my sides are splitting.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I can see the brilliant planning that is going
on, "Doh, we need a South Bridge chip. Anybody gots one of dem we can
cram in dis?".
http://news.cens.com/php/getnews.php?file=/news/2005/08/02/20050802014.htm&daily=1
Microsoft contracts SiS to design south-bridge chip for its Xbox360
game consoles
Taipei, Aug. 2, 2005 (CENS)--Microsoft Corp. recently contracted
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), an affiliate of silicon-foundry
supplier United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), to design south-bridge
chip for its Xbox360 game machines.
The chips will be made with 0.15-micron process at UMC's 200-mm
silicon-wafer fabrication factories, making them a major revenue earner
at UMC next quarter. With the contract, SiS becomes first Taiwanese
chip designer to lay out chips for Xbox360 machines. The contract is
estimated to help boost SiS's shipment of south-bridge chips to multi
million units a month in the fourth quarter.
Microsoft contracted Intel and Nvidia to supply chips for its
first-generation Xbox machines. As to its Xbox360 products, Microsoft
has signed up SiS to design south-bridge chip for it and designs
north-bridge chip based on patents licensed from ATI on its own. Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), UMC's primary rival, has been
contracted to produce north-bridge chips for the machines.
Microprocessors in the second-generation game machines will come from
International Business Machines (IBM).
SiS posted gross margin of 35.6% last quarter, hitting another new high
in 10 quarters. In first quarter this year, the company's margin was
31.43%. Throughout last half, the company had gross margin of 33.52%,
compared with 34.1% it registered in the same period of last year.
In the first half this year, the company reported after-tax net income
of NT$434 million (US$14 million at US$1:NT$31) on revenue of NT$4.9
billion (US$158 million). In the comparable period of last year, the
company saw a loss of NT$1.4 billion (US$45 million).
Taiwanese industry watchers pointed out that Microsoft decides to
design north-bridge chip for its Xbox360 machines and contract TSMC to
build the chips considering the unsmooth sales of its first-generation
Xbox machines because of high costs on chips it contracted directly
from designers.
Whoo-wee!!! M$ just RECENTLY contracted with SiS to DESIGN the South
Bridge chip for the xflop 1.5 full circle. This isn't manufacturing,
this is design. This is truly bizarre, they are still designing at this
stage. This just gets funnier and funnier as the weeks go by. The xflop
1.5 full circle was already looking like garbage but this thing is
really going to be slapped together in a rushed panic. Stop it, you are
killing me, I am laughing so hard my sides are splitting.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I can see the brilliant planning that is going
on, "Doh, we need a South Bridge chip. Anybody gots one of dem we can
cram in dis?".
http://news.cens.com/php/getnews.php?file=/news/2005/08/02/20050802014.htm&daily=1
Microsoft contracts SiS to design south-bridge chip for its Xbox360
game consoles
Taipei, Aug. 2, 2005 (CENS)--Microsoft Corp. recently contracted
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), an affiliate of silicon-foundry
supplier United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), to design south-bridge
chip for its Xbox360 game machines.
The chips will be made with 0.15-micron process at UMC's 200-mm
silicon-wafer fabrication factories, making them a major revenue earner
at UMC next quarter. With the contract, SiS becomes first Taiwanese
chip designer to lay out chips for Xbox360 machines. The contract is
estimated to help boost SiS's shipment of south-bridge chips to multi
million units a month in the fourth quarter.
Microsoft contracted Intel and Nvidia to supply chips for its
first-generation Xbox machines. As to its Xbox360 products, Microsoft
has signed up SiS to design south-bridge chip for it and designs
north-bridge chip based on patents licensed from ATI on its own. Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), UMC's primary rival, has been
contracted to produce north-bridge chips for the machines.
Microprocessors in the second-generation game machines will come from
International Business Machines (IBM).
SiS posted gross margin of 35.6% last quarter, hitting another new high
in 10 quarters. In first quarter this year, the company's margin was
31.43%. Throughout last half, the company had gross margin of 33.52%,
compared with 34.1% it registered in the same period of last year.
In the first half this year, the company reported after-tax net income
of NT$434 million (US$14 million at US$1:NT$31) on revenue of NT$4.9
billion (US$158 million). In the comparable period of last year, the
company saw a loss of NT$1.4 billion (US$45 million).
Taiwanese industry watchers pointed out that Microsoft decides to
design north-bridge chip for its Xbox360 machines and contract TSMC to
build the chips considering the unsmooth sales of its first-generation
Xbox machines because of high costs on chips it contracted directly
from designers.
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