Infineon Technologies blamed for Microsoft Xbox 360 shortage
German chipmaker Infineon has been named as the culprit for Microsoft?s inability to supply enough Xbox 360s. Did you know the Microsoft XBox 360 has more than 1,700 components? I sure didn’t, but it’s a shame one part is slowing things down.
Infineon, one of two companies supplying the Xbox 360’s storage memory chips, has had trouble making enough of the chips at the right speed for the game console that debuted last November, according to the sources. As a result, Microsoft has not been able to meet the demand for the console. Sources say the shortage of the Infineon memory chips has prevented Microsoft’s contract manufacturers, Wistron and Flextronics, from assembling enough consoles. Instead, those manufacturers have had to spend time sorting good chips from bad chips.
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