Thursday, June 9, 2011

Gamasutra - News - Wii U Will Have AMD Radeon HD, IBM Power Microprocessors, And 25 GB Discs

Gamasutra - News - Wii U Will Have AMD Radeon HD, IBM Power Microprocessors, And 25 GB Discs

Wii U Will Have AMD Radeon HD, IBM Power Microprocessors, And 25 GB Discs
Along with its 6.2" touchscreen controller, the Wii U will feature a custom HD graphics processor from AMD, Power-based microprocessors from IBM, and 25 GB game discs.


Wii U's discs, which are a proprietary format and not Blu-Ray as was rumored prior to yesterday's system reveal, is significantly larger than the original Wii's 4.7/8.54 GB discs, according toNintendo designer Katsuya Eguchi in an interview with Kotaku.


IBM says its will produce millions of its microprocessors for Wii U. The custom-designed chips feature its IBM Silicon on Insulator technology at 45 nanometer and are based on the company's open, scalable Power Architecture base.

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