Xbox 360 slim in 2009?

[Skeeuk]

starcraft said:

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37376/135/

"A more dramatic and perhaps visible change will happen next year: TSMC plans to begin producing the Valhalla chip, which will be the foundation of the mid-cycle refresh of the Xbox 360, thus called ‘Xbox 2.5’ or simply ‘Xbox 540’ (360+180), in fall of 2009. We learned that this new chip is apparently much more than a die-shrink and end up as a system-on-a-chip design. This change is likely to enable to redesign the Xbox 360 casing and go towards a slim-design, much like what Sony did with the Gen1 and Gen2 PS2. We believe that TSMC will use a 45 nm process for this Multi-Chip-Module package (CPU+GPU+eDRAM)."

The article also mentions that Microsoft is looking for a "better, cheaper" cooling system and that the new GPU system is already in production.

i highly doubt they will make a casing redesign, mabey subtle changes but overall the 360 outer design is ok in my opinion, it will be more on the iniards bit where the changes will be.