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Xenon - Xbox360 getting embedded DRAM confirmed. NEC will manufacture the eDRAM graphic

a link to the past

2005-04-27, 3:34 am

Xbox2 - Xenon - Xbox Next - Xbox360 is CONFIRMED to be getting eDRAM -
embedded DRAM memory for graphics. not embedded into the main ATI R5XX GPU,
but on a seperate framebuffer+anti-aliasing eDRAM graphics chip.

the main ATI V/GPU (R500 or R5xx) is still going to be manufactured by TSMC
in all likelyhood.

now about the seperate eDRAM + framebuffer chip:

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/...cleID=161600192

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" NEC Electronics to deploy its DRAM in Microsoft's next XBox

Yoshiko Hara EE Times
(04/26/2005 9:11 AM EDT)
TOKYO - NEC Electronics Corp. announced that Microsoft Corp. has adopted its
embedded DRAM for the next generation XBox, the U.S. company's game console,
to be announced at E3 in Los Angeles next month.

The embedded DRAM will be used as a key piece of the graphics subsystem of
the game console. The device will be fabricated on NEC's most advanced
process, according to a company spokeswoman. She declined to detail the
device.

The production of the eDRAM graphics chip has started at NEC Electronics'
300-mm wafer fabrication facility, which is equipped with 90-nm process
technologies named UX6."

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http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8126/...Spec-Confirmed/

http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthrea...335#post5165335

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=44845

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread....hlight=embedded

http://www.physorg.com/news3877.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/s...03486516&EDATE=

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22348

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22260

NEC is also working with ATI to embedded some type of memory into the ATI
'Hollywood' graphics processor for Nintendo's 'Revolution' system

a link to the past

2005-04-27, 3:34 am

ahem, I meant 'embed' not 'embedded' ...excuse the typo