The latter is written as if the Xbox 360 never existed, this was intentional to avoid confusing the reader with circular references. If you don’t know about that component, I highly suggest that you read my previous article about the PS3 beforehand. The first section of this writing (titled ‘CPU’) makes recurring references to IBM and Sony’s joint venture, Cell. This new entry of the console architecture series will give you an additional perspective of how technology was envisioned during the early naughties, with emphasis on the emerging ‘multi-core’ processor and unorthodox symbiosis between components, all of which enabled engineers to tackle unsolvable challenges with cost-effective solutions. But while the Xbox 360 might be the flagship of the 7th generation, it will need to fight strongly once Nintendo and Sony take up retail space. Released a year before its main competitor, the Xbox 360 was already claiming technological superiority against the yet-to-be-seen PlayStation 3. Motherboard with important parts labelled Diagram Main architecture diagram Remaining GDDR3 chips are found on the back. Xenon motherboards are also famous for being defective by design (they get too hot to play games with!). Showing the 'Xenon' revision (the first one), taken from my model from 2005. Operating System (and backwards compatibility).If you use accessibility tools or legacy browsers, switch to the ‘classic’ edition.