| curl-6 said: I'm still of the opinion that "three Broadways" outs this as fake. Why in the world would they beef up a CPU based on 1990s technology when it would be much simpler to just to use a modern one, even if it's not the most powerful one money can buy? (Easy backwards compatibility I suppose, but really, doesn't seem worth it) It's like tying three horses together and feeding them steroids instead of just buying a damn car. |
Well to be fair it says 3 "enhanced Broadway" cores, enhanced could mean anything including TBH including adding some Power 7 tech to it. Not to say it is real, but IBM did say that it was a custom CPU with tech from Whatson/Power 7. It could be that Nintendo got IBM to create a custom CPU derived from Power 7 but with Broadway feature parity for hardware backwards compatability. If the enhanced Broadway stuff is tru I don't think it would literally mean 3 Broadway cores.
I guy on GAF who had aparently been mod verified as having access to a Wii U dev kitt said that the term "enhanced Broadway" was used in technical documents from Nintendo. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41438117&postcount=195
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41437121&postcount=186
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=36333855&postcount=8989
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