The Power of Wii
Do Nintendo have something up their sleeves that they're not telling us about? A number of sources, including Daily Tech believe that the following information has been voluntereed by developers who have the Wii development kits."...the Wii will ship with a PowerPC 750GX CPU jointly developed between IBM and Nintendo. Nintendo says the codename of the processor is Broadway and was manufactured using a 90nm fabrication process. IBM claims the 750GX GPU is based on the 750FX processor designed by the company several years ago. The chip can run at frequencies up to 1.1GHz and includes a 4-way set-associative single core with 1MB L2 cache."
Some journalists have reported a gap in graphical quality between certain Wii titles at E3, so this news fuels the speculation that Nintendo had two versions of Wii at the show earlier this month (although HEXUS.gaming's editor is not convinced, he believes that the games were very similar in quality.)
There is also a suggestion that ATI's Broadway GPU is still in development, check out the official specs and you'll see that the GPU details of Wii are followed by the words 'Being developed with ATI', suggesting that it is still an ongoing project. We hope to bring you more details straight from ATI very soon.
