• the chip is based on IBM 710 Express
  • made by IBM and is based on their POWER 7 architecture
  • it was underclocked at 3 GHz
  • comes with 4 cores and 8 threads
  • 20X faster than the chip found in the Wii
  • built on 45nm
  •  the standard has 6 cores and runs at speeds of up to 3.7 GHz
  • 710 Express chip can also execute 4 threads per core at the same
  • Nintendo has scaled this down for Wii U
  •  threads per core will go down from 4 to 2
  •  roughly “around 50% more powerful than current gen systems”

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