CVG: Next Xbox Event scheduled for April 26th

Baconsammy said:
So what would the thinking even be? Since the memory wasn't available they use a memory type that is for the dev units (the leaked specs) and then swap in the new stuff for the final machines? How plausible is that?



Not everyone does. Are you not familiar with fanboys? That's how they act.
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agreed but everyone just seems to be so negative about xbox its like sony always gets a pass nintendo can do no wrong and most media and fan boys always expect xbox to do something wrong theres never any positive expectations its 2006 all over again ps3 won before it came out but now that's not reality they wont even concede credit to ms for this generation and how far they've come now its about how the xbox won because of a fluke and how they will crumble beneath a bunch of stuff they showed at their recent press conference that msoft showed in 2006.
 
Biggzy said:
Exactly. Let us say Durango would ship with this then it would have 160 GB/sec of bandwidth which is only 16 less than what the PS4 is shipping with. The ESRAM would be a huge waste of silicon that could be used to beef up the rumored GPU.
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Um, just out of curiosity would the ESRAM combined with the HMC give it a higher overall bandwidth?
 
El_Chino said:
Um, just out of curiosity would the ESRAM combined with the HMC give it a higher overall bandwidth?
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It should do as currently in Durango you can use it in parallel with the DDR3 RAM. However, like I said, it would be a waste of silicon, as this would give you the bandwidth you need.
 
XtremeXpider said:
You're right, but what about the stacking technology from IBM? :P
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Tell me which foundries have such in mass production running now, if not even six months ago, in the quantities necessary for a mass market device and you'll have your answer :P
 
XtremeXpider said:
But Microsoft logo is not showed at HMC homepage since some weeks ago.

http://hybridmemorycube.org/about.html

The weird thing is it said "the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium is managed by a group of ten developers" but only 9 logos are showed (including Micron). Why Microsoft "left" the consortium? there is not any announcement yet.
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Maybe they will show it again after April 26 and with New Xbox logo this time lol
 
Osiris said:
Tell me which foundries have such in mass production running now, if not even six months ago, in the quantities necessary for a mass market device and you'll have your answer :P
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People need to get over the RAM thing. Microsoft knows that DDR3 does not give you the bandwidth you need for games, so that is why they have invested in ESRAM. They also need to read Digital Foundry's analysis of Durango's specs where they say they after speaking to game developers the impression they came away with is that they will develop systems in the DDR3 memory and if the memory throughput becomes an issue they will port it over to the ESRAM. Now this is all in theory and still doesn't make it as good as Sony's solution, but it is not a complete disaster.
 
HardtopMental1 said:
agreed but everyone just seems to be so negative about xbox its like sony always gets a pass nintendo can do no wrong and most media and fan boys always expect xbox to do something wrong theres never any positive expectations its 2006 all over again ps3 won before it came out but now that's not reality they wont even concede credit to ms for this generation and how far they've come now its about how the xbox won because of a fluke and how they will crumble beneath a bunch of stuff they showed at their recent press conference that msoft showed in 2006.
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Not sure which reality you're living in but Nintendo gets no pass other than from their fanboys. Sony only gets a pass from their fanboys too, especially after their disastrous past 7-8 years. These are the same people that blindly attack Microsoft. It's not unusual to attack the company that bested the company you love though. The proper response to that isn't to respond in kind. Just ignore it.
 
I think Microsoft will have a lot of cool stuff to show and they do not want the playstation to have much time to respond or copy before e3. I wonder which will be the leader in specs?
 
shinnn said:
Didn't MS changed their logo recently? Maybe they took off the logo because of this.
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The new logo was revealed on the 23rd of August 2012. I doubt it would take six months for the HMC webmaster to get the new logo up on the site.
 
Biggzy said:
It should do as currently in Durango you can use it in parallel with the DDR3 RAM. However, like I said, it would be a waste of silicon, as this would give you the bandwidth you need.
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But yet no one actually knows what msoft is using most of their parts are suppose to be custom and developed with all the new ibm engineers msoft acquired in the development division plus all of their R&D points to a system that needs to have a massive amount of memory to run applications like this speech recognition technology for the next xbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c1gKTOQfuo&list=UUCb9_Kn8F_Opb3UCGm-lILQ&index=8

plus all the ui stuff and multiple task stuff if anything their console should be the most ram filled console and i think that's why some of their stuff is so secretive because they are making a truly custom system and i think people need to wait and see before assuming all these rumors
 
Wasn't the manufacturing timeline for GDDR5 modules also such that people said it'd be absolutely impossible for the PS3 to have 8 GBs? Plus, for Sony to "push the limits" so drastically by jumping to 8 GB they must've heard some rumblings about what MS was planning.

Memory Cube time!
 
Osiris said:
Tell me which foundries have such in mass production running now, if not even six months ago, in the quantities necessary for a mass market device and you'll have your answer :P
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Interposer is a current tech:

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http://www.i-micronews.com/upload/Rapports/3D_Silicon_&Glass_Interposers_sample_2012.pdf
 
shinobi602 said:
Wait, what's going on in the last page? Some sort of speculation MS is using a different type of DDR3 ram?
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MS is part of a consortium to design a Hybrid Memory Cube that significantly increases DDR3 ram into a powerhouse of RAM awesomeness. Some think this is the ram that'll be in Durango, despite the fact that the cube won't be going into production until 2014 at the earliest.
 
TheLegendary said:
Wasn't the manufacturing timeline for GDDR5 modules also such that people said it'd be absolutely impossible for the PS3 to have 8 GBs?

Memory Cube time!
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I'm not sure what reality you're living in, but the one I inhabit has had GDDR5 available in mass production quantities for over 5 years, what are you talking about? :P
 
And the thread enters tech fantasyland, which means I'm out, have fun daydreaming :P
 
Baconsammy said:
Not sure which reality you're living in but Nintendo gets no pass other than from their fanboys. Sony only gets a pass from their fanboys too, especially after their disastrous past 7-8 years. These are the same people that blindly attack Microsoft. It's not unusual to attack the company that bested the company you love though. The proper response to that isn't to respond in kind. Just ignore it.
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its hard to when every blog or site you go to has a negative rumor that has baseless facts to support them or no credible sources i mean isn't it odd we saw the ps4 controller and durango was supposedly in development longer and we haven't see its controller i think Microsoft just gave developers an idea of what to develop for that's it while they cook up the system and when its comes out finally then give them the final kits to continue we knew way to much about orbis then durango but more negative stuff about durango that cant even be proven by anyone!
 
Osiris said:
And the thread enters tech fantasyland, which means I'm out, have fun daydreaming :P
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pretty much. but hey, people said the same about the 8 gb ram ps3 rumors.

anyway, i just hope ms (and/or sony) has something in place that makes buying games digital worthwhile.
 
TheLegendary said:
Wasn't the manufacturing timeline for GDDR5 modules also such that people said it'd be absolutely impossible for the PS3 to have 8 GBs? Plus, for Sony to "push the limits" so drastically by jumping to 8 GB they must've heard some rumblings about what MS was planning.

Memory Cube time!
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Not sure where you got that from. That type of memory has been readily available for years.

HardtopMental1 said:
its hard to when every blog or site you go to has a negative rumor that has baseless facts to support them or no credible sources i mean isn't it odd we saw the ps4 controller and durango was supposedly in development longer and we haven't see its controller i think Microsoft just gave developers an idea of what to develop for that's it while they cook up the system and when its comes out finally then give them the final kits to continue we knew way to much about orbis then durango but more negative stuff about durango that cant even be proven by anyone!
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Not sure why any of that is getting to you as much as it is. A lot has leaked about Durango. And it's painting a pretty clear picture of Microsoft's intent both with hardware and services. Sony fanboys will look at that and tell you next gen is all about power. Xbox fanboys will say it isn't, it's all about moneyhats, services, XBL etc. It really just comes down to which company markets their box the best and gets the most third parties on board to vocally support it.
 
TheLegendary said:
Wasn't the manufacturing timeline for GDDR5 modules also such that people said it'd be absolutely impossible for the PS3 to have 8 GBs? Plus, for Sony to "push the limits" so drastically by jumping to 8 GB they must've heard some rumblings about what MS was planning.

Memory Cube time!
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no, they were thinking Sony would need to double up the qty of chips on the motherboard in order to get 8gb and that would require redoing the entire mobo layout with more connections to ram and shit. The more feasible way is to just double the density of the ram which is something many think they did and this wouldn't require a complex fix, but Sony could have been using 512MB chips to begin with and maybe did need to double up from 8 to 16 chips... Eh... Who knows. We got 8gigs.
 
HardtopMental1 said:
its hard to when every blog or site you go to has a negative rumor that has baseless facts to support them or no credible sources i mean isn't it odd we saw the ps4 controller and durango was supposedly in development longer and we haven't see its controller i think Microsoft just gave developers an idea of what to develop for that's it while they cook up the system and when its comes out finally then give them the final kits to continue we knew way to much about orbis then durango but more negative stuff about durango that cant even be proven by anyone!
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Holy run-on sentence Batman!
Damn that's impressive, maybe I'll stick around, that shit's funny as hell ^^
 
chubigans said:
MS is part of a consortium to design a Hybrid Memory Cube that significantly increases DDR3 ram into a powerhouse of RAM awesomeness. Some think this is the ram that'll be in Durango, despite the fact that the cube won't be going into production until 2014 at the earliest.
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Hmm, sound like one of the rumours about one of the two got delayed up to 6 months. Durango on 2014?
 
Rösti;48458204 said:
The new logo was revealed on the 23rd of August 2012. I doubt it would take six months for the HMC webmaster to get the new logo up on the site.
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Yeah, but he didn't took time to align the logos, format the tables or even change the text when removed the logo. I don't see those tables with border=1 since 1999 haha
 
About the HMC Consortium

The HMC Consortium is a working group made up of industry leaders that might build, design in, or enable hybrid memory cube (HMC) technology. The group—which currently includes Micron Technology, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Altera Corporation, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Open-Silicon, Inc., Xilinx, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, ARM Ltd., and SK Hynix, Inc.—works to define the HMC interface specification to maximize the capabilities of the next generation of memory-based solutions.
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http://www.micron.com/products/hybrid-memory-cube

But it can be related to servers.
 
Osiris said:
And the thread enters tech fantasyland, which means I'm out, have fun daydreaming :P
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Well, it's not like we haven't been there before...

RoboPlato said:
No way that's happening. I'll be shocked if we get more than two gigs of RAM.
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Labombadog said:
hahaha i seriously bust out laughing when I read this. wow.
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Crunched said:
Alright, it's official. Crytek has gone insane.
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DaBuddaDa said:
I'm not expecting any more than 2GB in the next Sony and MS systems.
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Old Gimlet Eyes said:
They would be lucky to get half of that. I am expecting more like 2GB, 8GB is just crazy talk. It would be nice no doubt, but I just don't see that happening.
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DSN2K said:
be lucky to get 4GB.
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AAK said:
Maybe if they launch in 2019 :)
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DaBuddaDa said:
We're not willing to subsidize the cost of this amount of RAM in the console's price. No more $500 console launches, please.
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...and that's just from the first page.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzBebuLRGc

this reveal event should be just like Microsoft 2006 e3 where they had so many games and partnerships knowing core gamers bring the generation along before going full blown media mid cycle if you saw this press conference you would know why they haven't spend time doing a lot of games lately they've been putting their studios in order and getting content ready for durango while using this past few years to get the next gen live ready for what they want to do by buying Skype and hiring all the people from onlive to fix their cloud solution.
 
iceatcs said:
Ouya?
Nah I won't think it is one from the two. I bet it is either Sony or MS, not Nintendo since it already out. Maybe Sony for 8GB and custom GPU, or MS for HMC.
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I mean Oban, the rumored "SoC-Memory interposer-whatever" from IBM for nextXbox. But it is only a rumor.
 
HardtopMental1 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzBebuLRGc

this reveal event should be just like Microsoft 2006 e3 where they had so many games and partnerships knowing core gamers bring the generation along before going full blown media mid cycle if you saw this press conference you would know why they haven't spend time doing a lot of games lately they've been putting their studios in order and getting content ready for durango while using this past few years to get the next gen live ready for what they want to do by buying Skype and hiring all the people from onlive to fix their cloud solution.
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Your posts have fewer periods than a menopausal woman. Dial it back a bit. You're kinda on the cusp of meltdown territory.
 
iMax said:
Well, it's not like we haven't been there before...
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this is a bit different. People are basing this off an article posted in early 2012 that states that MS, along with 9 other companies, are developing a new type of RAM. All the leaks, and all the "insiders" have not mentioned anything other than DDR3 RAM at 68gb/s and 32 MB ESRAM at 100gb/s. We also have have a lot people confirming that nothing has changed from the document leaks from the Fen 2012 summit(coincidentally right around the time this article about this new type of RAM was publish.)

So, it is quite a stretch, and some people do seem to be in "fantasy land" at the moment, getting way too excited over this. With that said it is an interesting find, and sounds like its interesting bit of new tech, but there nothing to say at the moment it has any connection to the next Xbox.
 
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