Date: Thursday, August 16 @ 21:53:54 UTC Topic: Hardware
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) claims that it has started production of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 graphics-memory subsystem, based on its 90-nm embedded DRAM process.
ATI, now part of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), is said to be supplier the actual Xbox 360 graphics processor. TSMC makes chips on a foundry basis for ATI and others.
TSMC's 90-nm eDRAM process is said to have a high-density macro design (80-Mb) at 500-MHz.