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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (8353)	5/17/2000 5:33:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Another new non-PC application for DDs: game boxes. We all know about Sony's box. Then there is the "X-Box", from a company named Microsoft: "X-Box CPU Upgraded By Jason Ocampo May 16, 2000, 04:00 PM PT It's official: Microsoft has upped the CPU on its X-Box video game system from 600 MHz to 733 MHz. Microsoft has also upped the X-Box's capabilities; previously, the company said the X-Box would be capable of a trillion operations a second, and now it claims the system is capable of 1.2 trillion operations per second. The X-Box is Microsoft's initial foray into the video game industry, and the system was demonstrated behind closed doors at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. The X-Box has three processors: an Intel CPU running at 733 MHz, a custom-made Nvidia graphics processor running at 300 MHz, and a custom 3D audio processor capable of supporting 256 hardware voices. The X-Box also has an 8GB hard drive, an Ethernet connection, and a DVD-ROM drive capable of playing both games and movies."