“The nifty clips of video games supporting Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console are running on Apple machines, Microsoft confirmed on Friday,” Richard Shim reports for CNET News. “‘We purchased a number of Apple G5’s because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow developers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and services,’ an official Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. ‘This is an interim development tool that will be replaced with a more powerful and comprehensive solution later.’
“The new console from Microsoft is based on a similar IBM PowerPC architecture used in Apple computers–the Xbox 360 uses three 3.2GHz symmetrical cores, according to the company. Apple has been using PowerPC chips since 1994 and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has said the company is happy with IBM’s PowerPC family of chips,” Shim reports. “Microsoft recently switched processors from an Intel chip used in the first Xbox console to a custom Xbox processor based on Big Blue’s Power technology in its new Xbox 360.”
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