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30 May 2007

Interview with Xbox 360 Architect

MSDN "Channel 9" has posted an interview with Nick Baker, hardware architect for the Xbox 360. There is a fair amount of high-level discussion about the multi-core programming model, which Microsoft apparently selected even while Intel was still pushing a "bigger is better" philosophy. This brought Microsoft to IBM's 3-core dual-thread processor used by the Xbox 360.

Read more at channel9.msdn.com...

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