German chips don't taste good
Earlier in the week Microsoft told us that the Xbox 360 component problems that led to world-wide shortages of the console are now fixed.
German chip manufacturer named Infineon have been named and shamed as the company behind the problem. Mercury news have been investigating and claim that Infineon have been having problems making enough chips at the right speed for the 360.
The GDDR3 chips were then passed on to assembly contractors, Wistron and Flextronics, who spent most of their time sorting useable chips from the bad ones. Many of the chips ran at speeds slower than the 700 Mhz needed.
Microsoft now say that the supply of Xbox 360s should become stable over the next 4 weeks.
