65nm 'Jasper' Xbox 360s Shipping

Author	Hugo Jobling
Published	30th Sep 2008

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 trials and tribulations have been fairly extremely well documented by now, although recently they seem to have been resolved - there's certainly less news of consoles succumbing to the Red Ring of Death, anyway. That should be increasingly the case now as, confirming rumour from last October, the console's GPU has also now been transitioned to a cooler, smaller 65nm manufacturing process.

The Jasper, as it is codenamed, platform should be found in Xbox 360s with a manufacturing date after the 6th of August this year and with a lot number of 8031 or higher. Don't blame me if you get strange looks asking to look at all the Xbox packages in Game or Argos, trying to find such a unit.

As well as the obvious consumer benefits of a less power hungry and thus cooler, the transition also means better yields for Microsoft, and thus enhanced profitability from the console. Not that has anything to do with the recent price cuts we're sure, though.

If you were for some (probably bizarre) reason, holding off buying an Xbox 360 until Jasper units were available then now's your time. Everyone else, settle in for the real next big thing set to come to the Xbox community: Gears of War 2!

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digitalife said on 3rd October 2008

Ok here's the situation, I was about to buy an XB360 until I read this..... where would I find the LOT number? Are these Jasper equipped versions available now? Confused........ more

Matt G Baish said on 3rd October 2008

@digitalife I believe its on a label (with the barcode possibly?) on the box.

Could be wrong though.

digitalife said on 4th October 2008

Thanks Matt G.

I've been Googling this quite a bit and it's not clear that they have actually been released yet. Also, Lot numbers are not an ideal way of... more