Custom PowerPC Drives New Xbox 360 to Tflop Performance

by Rick Merritt EE Times, 13 May 2005 Microsoft Corp. shifted up from the X86 to a custom triple-core, dual-threaded PowerPC for its Xbox 360 which the company claims delivers 1 teraflop of system-level, floating-point performance. The system marks a further step in the evolution of video game consoles into powerful home entertainment servers. Read the article