What’s inside the Wii U?
Who needs an iFixit Wii U teardown? In a remarkable turn of events, the latest Ask Iwata interview sees the Wii U tech team reveal the innards of its own console – and there are some fascinating aspects to the design of the new hardware.Some elements of the discussion between Iwata and his engineering team essentially confirm what we already know – that the Wii U offers up the first Nintendo-designed multi-core console, but the team pointedly skirt around the number of cores featured (it is almost certainly three). However, much of the interview concerns the revelation that Nintendo has employed a MCM – a multi-chip module – to house the crucial CPU and GPU combination. It’s not a single chip design along the lines of the Xbox 360S, but it’s a hugely important component of the Wii U’s design.”This time we fully embraced the idea of using an MCM for our gaming console,” says Genyo Takeda, senior managing director and general manager of the Integrated Research and Development Division.Read more…
