I might not get the next xbox if those current rumors hold true guess Sony will once again become my primary console.

Given what we know now. I think it's more likely that the Wii U's CPU is a modified Power PC 476FP. Same family as the 750. Except it's already manufactured at 45nm. It would be cheaper for Nintendo to have the 476FP modified than the other way around.

https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC_476FP_Embedded_Core

That's the one part that was confusing me. IBM said they had no intention of going below 90nm for hthe 750 and we know WiiU is 45nm. I figured since Nintendo was paying they did it anyways. Hopefully more info will come out to clarify it further.

Not only that, the 750 core was never designed for a multi-CPU setup. The 476FP was however.

Yes, that's what makes it stronger - amount and somewhat newer architecture (specially in the case of PS3, which does not have unified shaders, which means it has separate shaders for pixel and vertex operations). Above that, it seems that WiiU's GPU is DirectX 11 equivalent, so, although not very powerful per se compared to what (most likely) MSony consoles will have, it is still more easy to port to it than to PS360.

Of course, it's a real shame that CPU and memory bandwith are not spec'd higher, that would really make WiiU stand out right from the start, and be way better future proof.

EDIT: Just to clarify - this does not mean that WiiU is 2x more powerfull than PS360. If you look at raw numbers, PS3 has theoretical 400.4 GFLOPS in GPU and 179.2GFLOPS in Cell for total of 579.6 - which is more than WiiU; plus, it's pixel and shader fill rates are same as WiiUs. But this is just in theory - in practice, WiiU's GPU IS more powerfull than PS360 (just don't forget that it's shader performance is that, not necessarily overall performance). As for the whole system - it is maybe too soon to tell, but it seems that CPU will give lot of headaches to 3rd parties...

Well fuck you Nintendo, fuck you. It's like you WANT me to buy other consoles as well!!! You sick bastards.

Hey chunk heard from Marcan's twitter site that the Durango will be 1.6GHz any updates on OP?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=44951481

I wanted to point out, in case no one hasn't yet, that AMD's "Steamroller" APU wont come until 2014, that is if such APU would exist.

AMD has delayed Steamroller until 2014, with "Piledirver 2.0" set for 2013 instead.

Before the delay, AMD stated that 2013's APU's would not be Steamroller based, but something better than Piledriver. Now after the delay, hence, "Piledriver 2.0".

Thanks for the info gents.

Keep in mind several sources have said that the X720 was delayed due too poor yeilds on the chip. The question then becomes if both these things are true will MS opt to wait for Kaveri and risk letting Sony get a significant head start, or opt to use the so called "Piledriver 2.0"....