{"id":2708,"date":"2010-08-24T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2010-08-24T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:12:05","slug":"xbox-system-on-a-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/xbox-system-on-a-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox System-on-a-Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/08\/microsoft-beats-intel-amd-to-market-with-cpugpu-combo-chip.ars\">Jon Stokes<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/siracusa\/status\/22014690715\">John Siracusa<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2010\/08\/microsoft-beats-intel-amd-to-market-with-cpugpu-combo-chip.ars\"><p>It would have been easier and more natural to just connect the CPU and GPU with a high-bandwidth, low-latency internal connection, but that would have made the new SoC faster in some respects than the older systems, and that&rsquo;s not allowed. So they had to introduce this separate module onto the chip that could actually add latency between the CPU and GPU blocks, and generally behave like an off-die FSB.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stokes (via John Siracusa): It would have been easier and more natural to just connect the CPU and GPU with a high-bandwidth, low-latency internal connection, but that would have made the new SoC faster in some respects than the older systems, and that&rsquo;s not allowed. So they had to introduce this separate module onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}