Falcon is the name for the latest international electronics in the Xbox 360. It will have an IBM microprocessor and an AMD/ATI graphics chip that are manufacturedin a 65-nanometer production process. These are cost reduced chips that do the same thing as their 90-nanometer predecessors, but they're smaller.
With smaller chips, Microsoft gets a bunch of benefits. They won't generate as much heat. So the risks of overheating-one of the main reasons behind Microsoft's billion-dollar write-off repairs and extended warranties-are much lower. The chips may also cost half of what it took them before because they use less material and fewer manufacturing steps to produce.
So what do you guys think? Will this increase the sales of 360's? Will this reduce the risk of overheating?
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