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To: jim kelley who wrote (63904)	1/8/2001 3:33:00 PM
From: Steve Lee	Respond to of 93625

I share your thoughts on X Box coming out with P4. There is always the prospect of an enhanced P3 FSB being featured on the XBox. In 9 mths time, such a processor would be very easy to make and could even be made under licence from Intel by another foundry. Praps AMD might be able to do this as they are not likely to be getting much for Athlons in a P4 dominated market of 2002. I guess that explains why AMD bought a RDRAM licence and were advertising for Rambus engineers at about the time the X Box specs came out.

To: jim kelley who wrote (63904)	1/8/2001 4:54:51 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Xbox Here's some info that might help end this discussion. An Xbox block diagram from an August 2000 article at Dr Dobb's. ddj.com Note that it confirms all of the published spec's. From what I've read, Nvidia has been working on the GPU and memory controller since at least last April. Note also that the FSB bus to the PIII appears standard, so I would assume Intel is doing nothing special. (The Nvidia controller and Memory Bus may be what Forbes was alluding to in the article). It appears the memory bus is 16 bytes wide, which gives 6.4GBps with 200MHz DDR. Also of interest, a press release from Nvidia. SANTA CLARA, CA. — April 18, 2000 — NVIDIA™ Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that it has received $200 million from Microsoft® Corporation, which is a contractual advance payment against NVIDIA's future supply of its graphics processing units (GPUs) that will be included in Microsoft's X-Box. The X-Box is a new videogame console that is currently under development by Microsoft. In early March, NVIDIA agreed to develop and sell custom-designed GPUs for the X-Box and to license certain technology to Microsoft and its licensees for use in X-Box. The agreement between Microsoft and NVIDIA was announced on March 10, 2000, by Bill Gates, Microsoft's chief software architect, at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose, California. nvidia.com IMO this information, in combination with the Micron press release, should clear things up.