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Terrak

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Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 08:45
Not sure if this is news to most 360 fans but i stumbled on this piece of news that might get you excited-

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=10265


Chia said the design of the 45nm video-game processor is not yet complete, and hinted that production of the CPU - as well as other products designed for the 45nm process - is not likely to begin until late 2008 or early 2009.

" As 65nm just started production in the last two quarters, you would expect 45nm to come on stream about 18 months from that timeframe," said Chia, referring to when Chartered expects to begin production with the 45nm processor.

Zoy

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 08:48
It' s interesting, but I have to wonder if the difference in the heat output of these chips is going to be enough to overcome the other shoddy components within the console that actually fail under heat stress -- some sort of X-clamp that Eddie has mentioned.
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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 10:21
this coupled with the fact that the 360 elites are getting a new second heatsink might finally lower the red rings. But dont count on a major reduction od rrod untill Ms get their act together and redeisgn the board right.
Joe Redifer

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 10:26
I won' t be satisfied unless it' s .000002nm. Anything else is just way too big and quite worthless.
Zoy

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 12:51
There' s never going to be anything much finer than about 12 nm.


Joe Redifer

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 02, 2007 14:39
Never ever? All the way in to the future?
Zoy

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 00:44
Well, probably not until some kind of quantum technology is developed. I mean we' re talking about connections that are only a few atoms wide at that point.
mikayd2

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 02:17

quantum technology


I have some quantum technology But M$ want return my calls.
Virtua fighter 5

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 02:25
This reminds me, ive had this broken 360 sitting here for over a week now.. i need to get this fixed before VF5 vc comes out.
Evilkiller

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 02:46
As far as I know <12nm is already on the roadmaps of the big chip manufacturers.
mikayd2

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 02:53
Would you like some of my quantum technology
Silentbomber

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 02:58

There' s never going to be anything much finer than about 12 nm.


How do they make those chips so small?

how are the physically assembled?
< Message edited by Silentbomber -- 2 Aug 07 18:58:56 >
Abasoufiane

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 04:32


How do they make those chips so small?

how are the physically assembled?


you just wondered now after reaching 90nm ? i don' t know how the hell did they do that but that' s not a big surprise seriously, 120 nm is mind blowing if you think of how they can assemble it. so 45nm or 12 nm... the theory is already there , all it needs is money and time and demand.
Zoy

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RE: Xbox fans speak of 65nm. But 45nm 360 on the way - Aug 03, 2007 07:00

how are the physically assembled?


Robots with laser brains.


The whole shift over to multi-core processors is a strategy to keep advancing processing speeds pretty close to Moore' s Law (processing power doubles roughly every 24 months) since they are reaching the physical limitations of how tiny they can actually make these things.
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