Silicon Integrated Systems has reportedly won a contact for supplying some components for Microsoft’s next-generation console known as XBOX 2, according to Dow Jones Business News. Additional information about the agreement was not available at press time.

“We are integrating SiS’ cutting edge, media I/O technologies into future products to create innovative XBOX products and services that serve the digital entertainment lifestyle,” said Todd Holmdahl, general manager of XBOX hardware at Microsoft, in a statement.

We may expect the XBOX 2 to incorporate a highly-integrated I/O controller from SiS, but we cannot tell you which features are to be sported by the part. In general, we may anticipate XBOX 2 to boast with high-quality audio, possibly 7.1 with Dolby-Digital support; Serial ATA-150/300; Ethernet; WLAN; USB 3.0; Flash Card readers and other powerful technologies.

Earlier this year Microsoft chose ATI Technologies as the technology partner graphics system as well as IBM as the technology collaborator Central Processing Unit. No details about actual techniques to be used by those firms have been issued so far.

The design win may bring some additional profits for Hsinchu, Taiwan-based Silicon Integrated Systems, who became profitable only recently. Additionally, a contract with the world’s largest software maker – Microsoft Corporation – may bring some indirect advantages to SiS, such as reputation, in case SiS manages to satisfy needs of the Redmond, Washington-based giant flawlessly.