Personally, I am not all that impressed. With all of the news going back and forth, I would have expected more from the Xbox 360 processor.

It could be argued that the original Xbox was little more than a glorified PC. Sure, it did have a shared memory architecture, and the memory controller lived on the custom Nvidia GPU. But it sported a 733MHz Intel processor that varied only in cache size from the standard, Pentium III–based Celeron. The development system was pretty much a modified PC.

When Microsoft announced it was going with IBM on the CPU for the Xbox 360, people took notice. Maybe, the thinking went, the Xbox 360 wouldn’t be much like a PC after all. As details began to leak out, it was clear that the Xbox 360 bore little resemblance to a classic PC architecture. [Read the rest]

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