IBM to Power the New Wii U

Posted by Robert Dow on June 17th 2011 | Comments Closed
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IBM announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U. IBM plans to produce millions of chips for Nintendo featuring IBM Silicon on Insulator technology at 45 nanometers, the relationship between IBM and Nintendo dates to May 1999, when IBM was selected to design and manufacture the central microprocessor for the Nintendo GameCube. Read more about IBM and Nintendo here.

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Robert Dow is the senior researcher and benchmark analysts at JPR. Afectionetly known by his co-workers as Master Chief he is the COQC (chief of quality control). A former tennis, basketball, and golf star, after a almost fatal accident on the courts where he lost his left leg, he devoted his time to obtaining a degree in history from the University of San Francisco.

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