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  • Microsoft Revises Memory Placement in Latest Xbox 360 Hardware
    August 8, 2008 – 4:00 PM
    While Sony’s hardware revisions for its PlayStation 3 console appear to almost always be in the interest of cutting costs, Microsoft’s changes to the Xbox 360 seem to be aimed at both cost and reliability
  • Microsoft introduces 360-degree conferencing camera as part of VoIP strategy
    June 27, 2006 – 4:34 PM
    As part of its late push into the VoIP communications market, Microsoft yesterday unveiled a new device that may at least make prospective customers take notice: It's a 360-degree videoconferencing camera, that could enable remote participants to see directed sessions, where the camera follows the active speaker around the table. But behind that camera is Live Identity, and Office Communicator, and Active Directory...and is everyone really ready for this?
  • XBOX 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray
    May 2, 2008 – 3:40 PM in Business
    After months of rumors and denials, the XBOX 360 with a Blu-ray disc drive is due to be manufactured soon and shipped in Q3 of 2008. Pegatron Technology, an OEM subsidiary of Asustek Computer, is reported to have received the winning order from Microsoft
  • Xbox 360 component shipments to boost Foxlink and Ji-Haw revenues
    September 8, 2005 – 9:50 AM
    Foxlink (Cheng Uei Precision Industry) and Ji-Haw Industrial (JH) reported that they began shipping Xbox 360 related components to Microsoft in August, and they expect shipments of the related products to contribute significantly to their revenues in September.
  • Details of ATI's Xbox 360 GPU unveiled
    May 20, 2005 – 12:36 PM
    With Microsoft's official announcement of the next-generation Xbox 360 console this week, ATI has decided to disclose some of the architectural details of the graphics processor that it created for the system.
  • Lite-On Developing BD-ROM Drives For Xbox 360?
    April 1, 2008 – 10:07 AM
    Lite-On IT is developing built-in Blu-ray Disc-(BD) ROM drives for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console, according to industry sources.
  • IPhone And Xbox 360 Controller Commands DARPA's Killer 'Crusher' Robot
    February 29, 2008 – 7:55 AM
    For the past few weeks, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Army have been running the 'Crusher' six-wheeled robot through torturous recon and cave-clearing missions. By early reports, the robot has performed well and Army personnel have even adapted two popular gadgets to control the bot.
  • Gaming Consoles a Goldmine for More Than Just Games
    September 4, 2008 – 5:30 PM
    Think gaming consoles are mere toys? Online content and services tied to Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s PlayStation, and Nintendo’s Wii will generate more than $8 billion in revenue for those companies by 2013
  • IBM's Xbox 360 processor enters mass production
    October 25, 2005 – 12:36 PM
    Rather a formality than a surprise, IBM today announced at the Fall Processor Forum that the heart of Microsoft's upcoming game console Xbox 360, a 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based processor with three cores, is in production. The chip was developed in less than 24 months, IBM said.
  • Samsung ships "majority" of GDDR3 memory for Xbox 360
    November 29, 2005 – 12:32 PM
    Samsung today said that it is the main supplier of the graphics memory for Microsoft's recently launched game console Xbox 360. Running at 700 MHz, the 512 Mbit GDDR3 memory, organized in a 16 Mbit x 32 configuration, is rated at a bandwidth of 5.6 GByte per second, which is about 3.5 times faster than the memory used in the original Xbox, Samsung said.
  • 65nm Xbox 360 CPUs delayed until mid-2007
    December 28, 2006 – 6:46 PM
    According to industry sources, plans to produce CPUs for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console on 65nm at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will be pushed back until the middle of 2007, at least one quarter behind the original schedule.
  • Microsoft connects Windows PCs, TVs with Xbox 360 console
    October 14, 2005 – 1:27 PM
    Microsoft today released the Update Rollup 2 for its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 system, which enables users to stream digital content - including high-definition video - to any TV the console is connected to. The update is available as a free download.
  • Xbox 360 fetching up to $5000 on eBay
    November 22, 2005 – 6:31 PM
    As big box retailers quickly sell out of the Xbox 360, some lucky buyers are seeing a nice turnaround on their investment. And more and more are seeing an obscenely profitable one.
  • Cost is king for Xbox 360 power-management discretes, and ON Semiconductor has been crowned, says iSuppli
    December 1, 2005 – 1:59 PM
    Much attention has been paid to the some of the bigger chips in the new Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console, like IBM's microprocessor and ATI Technologies graphics processor.
  • 65 Nm GPUs For Xbox 360 In Production, Xbox '540' Coming In 2009
    May 12, 2008 – 9:50 AM
    Taipei (Taiwan) - News about refreshed Xbox 360 consoles are trickling, which is about time given the fact that the console will celebrate its third birthday later this year.

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