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You could design the next revision of the 360 motherboard Posted by XanTium | March 8 16:52 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From joystiq.com: A Microsoft job listing reveals that the company is looking for staff to design a new Xbox 360 motherboard. From the sound of it, the new "Motherboard Design Engineer" will be helping to design further revisions of the existing Xbox 360 architecture, rather than the hardware for a next-next-generation system. "The responsibilities of this position are focused on specifying, designing (schematic capture, PCB layout, BOM, cost analysis), implementing and verifying the mother-board and other various sub-system boards that make up the Xbox 360 product line," the job description reads. Full Story: joystiq.com | careers.microsoft.com

[tomgreen99200]

and here comes all the xbox bashing  

[BinkY_BMF]

First / Final steps towards the Slim60?

[wassco]

Unfortunatly everyone that had the 360 and wanted a slimline version.. smartened up and bought a ps3...lol

[FrostyTheSnowman]

I'm not surprised... we all know Microsoft's engineers are incapable of understanding thermal flaws in their system, so it's not surprising that Microsoft is hiring someone else to fix it.

[radoman]

Easy...

Combine the gpu and cpu onto one chip. Move it out from under the dvdrom and put a decent heatsink and fan ontop of it.

Am I hired?

[bucko]

I wonder if the old one got fired

[vb_encryption_vb]

QUOTE(radoman @ Mar 8 2010, 05:40 PM)

Easy...

Combine the gpu and cpu onto one chip. Move it out from under the dvdrom and put a decent heatsink and fan ontop of it.

Am I hired?

Lol pretty much summed that one up..

QUOTE(bucko @ Mar 8 2010, 05:54 PM)

I wonder if the old one got fired

+1

[dokworm]

QUOTE(radoman @ Mar 8 2010, 11:40 PM)

Easy...

Combine the gpu and cpu onto one chip. Move it out from under the dvdrom and put a decent heatsink and fan ontop of it.

Am I hired?

Sure, post a tape-out of the new chip design, and a re-route of all the connections to the separate chips, make it cost effective, and you're hired. Easy.

So if they are hiring now, then that means a new mboard revision is what, 12 months away?

Anyone thinking there will be a 'slim' it would mean ditching the tray load DVD-ROM drive if you wanted the 360 to get much slimmer than it is now. The motherboard isn't that heavily populated or all that large now, it is heatsinks, fans and the DVD-ROM drive that take up most of the real-estate.

[TMownsu]

Please perform the proper testing during the EU phase. Waiting for the retail customer to figure out what is wrong with the design is not a good business model. Also if something cost 10 dollars then please pay the cost, & do not try to cut something in half when you know that it is already dirt cheap.

[juggahax0r]

Did anyone actually click the link to the MS website because it isn't their.

[saint24]

should give the job to rdc

[opiate81]

I know this is probably more software controlled but if someone from here gets the job put a button on the mobo that disables security (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[Jerry1Gman]

QUOTE(juggahax0r @ Mar 8 2010, 06:34 PM)

Did anyone actually click the link to the MS website because it isn't their.

This link should work;
https://careers.micr...s...69&jlang=EN
If it doesn't, it is Job ID: 714897.

[pinkerton]

So much for valhalla then.