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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Microsoft to open Xbox Gamerscore rewards program
    February 8, 2007 – 1:26 PM
    Loyal Xbox 360 owners who have managed to climb into the Gamerscore stratosphere will soon be able to get some sort of benefit for their efforts, when Microsoft opens up its Reward Challenge program later this month, with smaller awards available for users who haven't logged as much time on their console.
  • 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
  • Infineon blamed for Xbox shortage fiasco
    February 15, 2006 – 4:19 PM
    German chipmaker Infineon has been named as the culprit for Microsoft's inability to supply enough Xbox 360s.
  • Microsoft to develop future Xbox chips
    October 20, 2006 – 1:58 PM
    Chipping away from former and current hardware partners Intel IBM, Microsoft has decided to develop game console processors itself, reports The New York Times. Design and testing of new chips is headed to Microsoft's own internal labs in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA.
  • 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
  • Microsoft's Hotmail And Xbox Live Servers Down For The Count
    February 26, 2008 – 5:24 PM
    Redmond (WA) - Microsoft's servers are experiencing technical problems today and millions of Hotmail and Xbox Live servers were unable to log in as of 12 noon today.
  • 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.
  • ATI to roll out R500 GPU for Xbox 2 in 1Q 2005
    September 30, 2004 – 10:27 AM
    ATI Technologies is expected to roll out a new GPU, codenamed R500, for the Xbox 2 in the first quarter of next year, according to market sources.
  • 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
  • Battlestar Galactica coming to Xbox and the PC
    February 9, 2007 – 7:47 PM
    Sierra Online is bringing the popular sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica to the Xbox Live network and PCs in a new video game this fall. The space flight simulator will have ships from both the human and Cylon races and will feature single and multiplayer games. A single player campaign mode will also have missions that resemble episodes from the television series.

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