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Lokie · 03-February-04, 10:23 PM

IT FINALLY happened and two sources have filed specs of the Microsoft XBox2 hardware. The first came from the Mercury News, with a rather anaemic version of the XBox2 specs.

But TeamXBox has come up with a much more comprehensive version here, and promises more in the not too distant future.

The raw specs are not hugely unexpected, three IBM PPC CPUs, each capable of running two threads, for a total of six threads running at the same time. These cores, reportedly based on the PowerPC 976, the first dual core 65nm PPC core. What is more up in the air is whether each core is SMT capable, or there are true dual cores on each die. Either way, it potentially packs a huge processing punch.

More here.

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Lokie Custom What? Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Eau Claire,WI Posts: 6,817	Web News: Xbox 2 hardware specs emerge IT FINALLY happened and two sources have filed specs of the Microsoft XBox2 hardware. The first came from the Mercury News, with a rather anaemic version of the XBox2 specs. But TeamXBox has come up with a much more comprehensive version here, and promises more in the not too distant future. The raw specs are not hugely unexpected, three IBM PPC CPUs, each capable of running two threads, for a total of six threads running at the same time. These cores, reportedly based on the PowerPC 976, the first dual core 65nm PPC core. What is more up in the air is whether each core is SMT capable, or there are true dual cores on each die. Either way, it potentially packs a huge processing punch. More here.