Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Filed under: News , Rumors In a follow up to the news that the 360's internal hardware will be changed to the " Jasper " setup, there is now the news that the "Valhalla" update mentioned in that story is more than just a CPU and GPU on the same chip. TG Daily thinks that the Valhalla chip will be the heart of a complete hardware revision in Fall 2009, ala the slimline PS2. While that would seem the...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Filed under: Gaming We think we've already got a handle on the various chipset revisions planned for Microsoft's too-beautiful-for-this-world Xbox 360*, but it looks like that planned 45nm "Valhalla" combined CPU / GPU motherboard design we've been hearing about might also come in a redesigned, smaller case. That's certainly news to us, but TG Daily has the refresh happening on the same fall-2009...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , Business Since it won't go anywhere near the Wii Fit balance board and is extremely likely to die during a heated workout, your obese Xbox 360 isn't going to get thinner in its lifetime. No, that's what the "Xbox 540" replacement is for, claims TG Daily . The site reckons that Microsoft will release a "mid-cycle refresh" of the system in Fall 2009, one built around...
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It is said that the first batch of 65 nm GPUs for the popular Microsoft Xbox 360 are rolling of the production line and that the Xbox 360 consoles using the 65 nm technology is expected to start shipping this August, but what is more important are the rumors of a new refreshed Xbox 360 [...]
Loot Ninja (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
This is not a new console. Let me just get that out there. A recent article from TGDaily expressed that a newer and smaller 45nm chip is in production which will allow for a more compact Xbox 360, dubbed Xbox 2.5 or 540 buy the fanboy masses. A fervor broke out that a new console [...]
8Bit Joystick.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
TG Daily wrote an article today that stated that they think that the Valhalla Xbox 360 motherboard is going to be integrated into a new case design and form factor. They threw around the slang term "the Xbox 540" . I do not see how this is going to be the case and here are my reasons why : 1. Microsoft has never redesigned the case of an Xbox product. I have never heard anything about them changing...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
TG Daily writes Microsoft may be planning a mid-cycle refresh for its Xbox 360 console. Later this year the firm will ship consoles with 65nm GPUs and next year when the Valhalle SoC chip arrives Microsoft may introduce a new Xbox console with a slimmer design: The Xbox 360 is scheduled to ship in an "all 65 nm" package (Jasper platform) this August. Consumers won't notice the refresh, unless Microsoft...
Xbox-Scene News (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
From tgdaily.com (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37376/135/ ): [QUOTE] A more dramatic and perhaps visible change will happen next year: TSMC plans to begin producing the Valhalla chip, which will be the foundation of the mid-cycle refresh of the Xbox 360, thus called 'Xbox 2.5' or simply 'Xbox 540' (360+180), in fall of 2009. We learned that this new chip is apparently much more than a die-shrink...
