After months of speculation, the new 65nm xbox chip, codenamed Falcon, has been found in the wild. Some clever hackers have opened up their new special edition Halo 360, and found the chip hidden under a smaller heatsink. This chip replaces the 90 nm chip which has been usedto date. The falcon apparently costs half as much to produce, and also produces less heat. There is speculation that the 350’s well documented Red Ring of Death was caused by overheating, so this may help on the reliability front, and recoup some of that 1 billion dollar hit.
Hang in there MS, if this continues you may even make some money on the console front one of these days.
Only joking!
[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAfter months of speculation, the new 65nm xbox chip, codenamed Falcon, has been found in the wild. Some clever hackers have opened up their new special edition Halo 360, and found the chip hidden under a smaller heatsink. … [...]
whats up with the “code name falcon”??? i mean, this is the millennium falcon…right? i thought you would be talking about the unique collectors edition look of it! i mean, I’ve never seen anything like it before! an X box shaped like a space craft! and your talking about a chip???? …. and why haven’t they released the Star Wars style X box? is it defective???
Moratoria says : I absolutely agree with this !
will u sell it to me
is the falcon chip in all the xboxes?? i think microsoft is trying to sell the last xboxes without the chip..that might be (my) reason why it costs 150 now..nut does the falcon chip makes the console expensiver?? plz comment back!!