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Procrastinato on 02 January 2010
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Squilliam said:
Procrastinato said:

MS screwed IBM on the die shrinking profits, and the rights to manufacture the CPU, I hear. Thus, no one is working on making the X360 45nm, to my knowledge. I don't believe there will be a model newer than the Jasper until AMD finishes its CPU/GPU combo chip.

That probably won't be in production until like... 2011? Maybe late 2011, even.

They have used Chartered for a while but since Global Foundries are also part of the same IBM fab alliance they could transfer to them relatively easy. I don't believe they have to wait until Fusion releases, CPU companies often tape out a year ahead of the release of a new model. The lessons which need to be learnt have most likely been learnt by now.

I kinda think MS is banking on Fusion being their next major X360 design.  I think they wouldn't bother to spend the money to upgrade to independant 45nm chips and supplies, if they haven't by now (which they haven't).

I doubt we will see another hardware revision of the X360 until the Fusion/Valhalla, for that reason, and I sincerely doubt that's going to be this year.  MS has already reached a relatively stable hardware revenue -- another reason I don't think they are all gung ho to make a short run of 45nm models before the hybrid.