Confirmed: 65nm CPU and GPU now in some Halo 3 edition Xbox 360's

[stranne]

sharky said:

TaroSarask said:

So, we've been hearing the (first) rumors, and then reports of the Falcon 65nm CPU for a while now. Has anyone heard/read anything, anywhere about when the GPU will get the switch?

 

IBM made the switch... we're waiting on ATI to change up?! You'd think they'd be tooling up by now.

 

PE

Has nothing to do with ATI. ATI just provided the IP of Xenos to MS. MS fabs it wherever they want (this is the reason 350 hardware will be a lot more profitable for MS in the long run). Actually ATI, like Nvidia, is a fabless company. They design things, somebody else produces them.

 

MS uses TSMC I believe for fabbing Xenos.

 

Supposedly MS diverted all it's engineering resources to fixing the RROD, and this why Xenos on 65nm was delayed. I wouldn't expect it until spring.

 

 

 

 

So was it just a lump sum to ATI/AMD for the IP or does it scale with units sold? And is it the same type of contract for Wii?