45nm for Wii? A future Wii redesign?

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HappySqurriel said:
I (personally) expect Nintendo to move towards the 45nm process in order to integrate the Hollywood and Broadway processors (and potentially the 1 transistor memory) onto one chip; the benefit of this for the Wii would be a slightly lower manufacturing cost and energy consumption, but the long term benefit for Nintendo would be that they would have the "heart" of their next handheld system, it would have all of its R&D paid off, developers would be very familiar with it, and it would (already) be in mass production.

I didn't think it that far... Extremely good point. If the tests have showed Wiis power consumption to be around 18W during gameplay, 90->45nM could reduce the processors power consumption up to a quarter. Since Hollywood and Broadway can work in variable frequincies, going down to Gekko&Flipper specs, could get us around 3-4W (DSL box says its power consumption is 2,3W). Considering the better battery tech after few years, it actually could be even likely.