Xbox 360 hardware architect inteview on Channel 9

Tuesday 29th May 2007, 05:05:00 PM, written by Rys

The director of architecture for the Xbox 360 hardware has been interviewed on Microsoft's Channel 9. Nick Baker, ex-3DO, talks about the hardware design, the collaboration with ATI for Xenos, parallel programming constructs and multi-core program development, the stripped down version of the NT kernel running on the PowerPC processor architecture and more.

One of the more interesting topics is how close the shipping 360 is to the very first hardware concepts, and while the implementation is different -- it specified many-core x86 for a start -- the basic concepts are intact, with multi-core processing and a discrete graphics processor.

Nick talks about hardware changes that affect cost reduction efforts, the design history from inception to shipping and more. The graphics geeks among you won't take masses from it, but the parallel programming topics will see increasing exposure and application for the graphics processor industry over time.

Check it out.

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