Well apparently the word in the streets ( good streets ) of the Informatic High-way is that Xbox 2: ( code-name Xenon ) Development Kit in Alpha version are coming out... NOW.
Yes, it seems that for the elected few who have received notification and have agreements with Microsoft, they can download the Alpha
K ( Xenon Development Kit ) as we speak.
The next revision of the SDK should be out around the first or second week of April.
Discuss.
Oh, there is e-DRAM on the GPU: it should be for textures ( this is the voice going around ) like on GCN's Flipper chip ( the Texture Cache ), but I do not know if they will also store the back-buffer and Z-buffer in the e-DRAM.
Yes, the SDK give you a nice look of the machine specs and features... or so I hear.