Is not the first time IBM was chosen by Nintendo to reinforce their consoles. In May 1999, IBM has been selected to design and manufacture the Central Processing Unit (CPU) for Gamecube, and then moved to the Nintendo Wii.
Relations between the two companies are also becoming intimate until 2006 when IBM had shipped 90 million chips for Nintendo consoles. And now, Nintendo re-entrust the IBM processors to use on the Wii U.
Nintendo Wii U, is said use 3 core processor that based on the PowerPC CPU architecture, while the graphics card has 512MB memory, with the (Graphics Processing Unit) from ATI Radeon R700 GPU that supports pixel shader 4.1.
"We proud to become part of the technological advances during the third-generation Nintendo console entertainment," said Corbin, director, IBM's custom chip business, in his statement on Thursday (06/09/2011).
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Simultaneously, IBM claimed to be ready produces millions of chips with 45nm fabrication designed for the Nintendo game console.
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