There's nothing like a healthy dose of spurious conjecture to kick-off the week in a fun and tabloid fashion, and suitably this report provides just such titillation as VE3D.com this morning reports on a Mercury news piece and subsequent TeamXbox follow-up. Here's a few tidbits then, from the TeamXbox story, supposedly providing a leak of 2 specification details from a insider:

The Xbox 2 will use three 64-bit processors. But we'll give you even more details. They'll be PowerPC processors, based on the PowerPC 976, the first dual-core 97x chip based on IBM's 64-bit POWER5 architecture, which will also be the first PowerPC built on a 65nm manufacturing process. The graphic chip will be based on the the R500. This VPU has been in design at ATI's Marlborough, Mass. office. It'll be fully compatible with DirectX 9's PS and VS 3.0 and the next version of DirectX: DX10, the same suite of APIs that will be used in Longhorn. The technology also supports up to 512 MB of external memory on a 256-bit bus. However, current specs plan to use 256 MB RAM, big enough for next-generation visuals which are all about computational power rather than large storage.
The report also suggests that the next-generation of Xbox technology (whether named Xbox 2 or Xbox Next), will not be backwards compatible with current Xbox titles, owing to the expense of licensing technology from out-of-favour NVIDIA. Also, we're reliably informed that no hard drive will be present in this iteration of the hardware, with some form of Flash memory being the order of the day instead. I urge you to read the full news stories for all the juicy gossip.

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. Falco Unregistered 5 years ago

    hmm if bill gates was smart enough even thou i have an xbox myself and its really great besides having the power y dont he try a new bit of technolody instead of having DvD music on there true put summit on that a ps3 wont have a better technology = a better deal

  2. spunky Unregistered 5 years ago

    whatever!!

  3. james braselton Unregistered 5 years ago

    I HOPE THE X-BOX 2 WILL HAVE HARD DRIVE THATS I GOT THE REGULAR BESIDES HALO THOUGHT IF ADDED A USB TV TUNER EXTERNAL YOU COULD USE THE X-BOX AS TIVO UNFORTUNTLY MARCH YOU CAN BUY A $99.00 PLUGE IN INTERAL DRIVE FOR PLAY STATION WICH IS BETER THEN USING MEMERY CARDS IF IT WAS ME I WOULD PUT A 40 GEGABYTE OR BIGER FOR THE X-BOX MAY BE A 120 GEGABYTE VERSION I NEVER OWNED PLAY STATION ONLY NINTEDO OR SEGA LIKE DREAM CAST OR GENIUS I GOT OUT OF THE GAME CUBE OR GAME BOY BECASE NO DVD MOVIES OR NO ONLINE STUFF LIKE X-BOX OR THE N-GAGE FROM NOKIAS N-GAGE WITH REALPLAYER 1.0 FOR STERMING VIDIO AND WATECHING MOVIES AT COST IS ON CELLPHONE BILL WICH IS T-MOBILE BUT SUPORTS AT&T AND CINGULAR AND FM TUNER AND MP3 PLAYER BUT A MEMORY CARD IF YOU WANT TO RECORD MUSIC OR DOWN LOAD A MOVIE IN FACT I HOPED ENOUGH PEPOLE GET N-GAGES I HAVE READ TO PSP OR POTABLE PLAY STATION THAT I STILL DOUGHT IF THEY ARE EVERE GOING TO RELEASE FOR 12 YEARS THEY ADVERTISED IT IN EVERY SNEAKY GAMING MAGAZINE LIKE WHEN SEGA CAME WITH PORTABLE DEVIVCE BUT WENT BANRUPT I STILL HAVE OLD COMADORE 64 WITH 64 KILLOBITES OF DATA 5 3/4 INCH FLOPY DRIVE WITH 2,400 BITE RATE SO THE IDEAR OF USEING ONE DEVICE TO COVER EVERY THING .

  4. james braselton Unregistered 5 years ago

    I HOPE THE X-BOX 2 WILL HAVE HARD DRIVE THATS I GOT THE REGULAR BESIDES HALO THOUGHT IF ADDED A USB TV TUNER EXTERNAL YOU COULD USE THE X-BOX AS TIVO UNFORTUNTLY MARCH YOU CAN BUY A $99.00 PLUGE IN INTERAL DRIVE FOR PLAY STATION WICH IS BETER THEN USING MEMERY CARDS IF IT WAS ME I WOULD PUT A 40 GEGABYTE OR BIGER FOR THE X-BOX MAY BE A 120 GEGABYTE VERSION I NEVER OWNED PLAY STATION ONLY NINTEDO OR SEGA LIKE DREAM CAST OR GENIUS I GOT OUT OF THE GAME CUBE OR GAME BOY BECASE NO DVD MOVIES OR NO ONLINE STUFF LIKE X-BOX OR THE N-GAGE FROM NOKIAS N-GAGE WITH REALPLAYER 1.0 FOR STERMING VIDIO AND WATECHING MOVIES AT COST IS ON CELLPHONE BILL WICH IS T-MOBILE BUT SUPORTS AT&T AND CINGULAR AND FM TUNER AND MP3 PLAYER BUT A MEMORY CARD IF YOU WANT TO RECORD MUSIC OR DOWN LOAD A MOVIE IN FACT I HOPED ENOUGH PEPOLE GET N-GAGES I HAVE READ TO PSP OR POTABLE PLAY STATION THAT I STILL DOUGHT IF THEY ARE EVERE GOING TO RELEASE FOR 12 YEARS THEY ADVERTISED IT IN EVERY SNEAKY GAMING MAGAZINE LIKE WHEN SEGA CAME WITH PORTABLE DEVIVCE BUT WENT BANRUPT I STILL HAVE OLD COMADORE 64 WITH 64 KILLOBITES OF DATA 5 3/4 INCH FLOPY DRIVE WITH 2,400 BITE RATE SO THE IDEAR OF USEING ONE DEVICE TO COVER EVERY THING .

  5. pat Unregistered 5 years ago

    keep up the goog work

  6. pat Unregistered 5 years ago

    I ment good