As you all know, online site Llama.com stripped down Xbox 360 Elite to its bare naked essentials literally. Quite unfortunately, it was found out that the new SKU still doesn't have the much-talked about 65nm GPU. Semiconductor Insights (SI) did the same recently and was able to provide some good inputs about the matter.

SI, just so you know, is one of the more reliable technical advisers to the microelectronics community around the globe. Some products that benefited from its expertise include Infineon, Intel, TSMC, and Texas Instruments among many others. Going back to 360 Elite, SI's technology analyst Rob Hilkes noted,

The CPU in the Xbox 360 Elite seems to be assembled in Canada whereas the CPU in the previous Xbox was marked "Taiwan." This may indicate that while the previous CPU was built on Chartered's Fab7 in Singapore and assembled in Taiwan, the CPU of the Elite may be built in IBM's Fab B323 in East Fishkill, New York and assembled at IBM's assembly facility in nearby Bromont, Quebec.