IBM confirms that Wii U does not use Power 7 CPU

[Squilliam]

MDMAlliance said:

Squilliam said:
If the Wii U's CPU was worth mentioning then Nintendo would have mentioned it by now, ditto for GPU. They talked about having the 'most RAM ever in a console' but no news on the processors? No news is bad news, really did anyone expect anything bar a respin of the Wii?

That's an assumption.  Most people probably wouldn't be able to make much sense of it, as you can see even here when people "revealed" it supposedly.  People still have no idea what it means.  I doubt you do either.

The thing which IBM has been talking up has always been the package. I.E. How they fit the chips together. I doubt that the Wii U packs 3 cores out of  a 200W 8 core CPU when the whole console only consumes around 40-45W.

"Each core is capable of four-way simultaneous multithreading (SMT). The POWER7 has approximately 1.2 billion transistors and is 567 mm² large fabricated on a 45 nm process"

IBM has other processors designed for low power, why would Nintendo take a server chip and heavily modify it at their expense to do something which other pre-existing CPUs are much more suitable for without needing extensive changes.