Theres so much crap, I had to get my waders.
The CPU in the 360 is a custom design based on the Power5 that MS owns. The G5's are the closest commercially available chip on the market right now.
Microsoft make the mistake of licensing the chip designs from Intel and nVidia for the Xbox, and has not made the same mistake again.
We'll have to suck it and see, but, I think the modifications to POWER5 are going to be insubstantial (in CPU compatibility terms) due to the prohibitive cost and lack of necessity. I feel the biggest stubling block to a porter is more likely to be DRM malarky rather than the CPU.
I hope you don't think that I was implying Microsoft were going to use off-the-shelf G5's... :rolleyes:
Also, are you trying to say that Microsoft own POWER5 or that they own the custom design? They certainly don't own POWER5.