Jasper Xbox 360 to Follow Falcon
Date: Wednesday, October 10 @ 10:14:09 UTC
Topic: Xbox Development
Dean Takahashi of The Mercury News says that Microsoft will launch a redesigned Xbox 360 in time for next year’s holiday season as part of its cost-cutting strategy.
According to Takahashi, a highly reputable source of Xbox information, Jasper is the code name for the next Xbox 360 motherboard. In his Mercury News blog he says that Jasper will launch next August and feature a 65-nanometer graphics chip from ATI Technologies, alongside smaller memory chips than those currently housed in existing models.
Jasper will carry lower costs than current motherboards because of the reduced size of its chips, which translate into material savings, and should allow Microsoft to introduce fresh price cuts to its line of Xbox 360 models by next August.
While a lot of engineering resources have been tied up debugging Xbox 360 reliability problems, Takahashi queries why Microsoft has left it so long to “cost reduce the size of the graphics chip through a manufacturing shrink,” suggesting that the move to 65-nm graphics chips “will likely be one of the best things it can do to improve the reliability.”
According to the report the 65-nm graphics chip isn’t yet complete. Takahashi says that Microsoft is still working on it although the platform holder declined to comment on the matter, other than to say that updating its hardware components is a constant part of its strategy.
News-Source: http://www.next-gen.biz
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