Broadway is the codename of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) used in
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. It was designed by
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, and is currently being produced using a 90 nm
SOISilicon on insulator technology refers to the use of a layered silicon-insulator-silicon substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance and thereby improving performance...
process.
According to IBM, the processor consumes 20% less power than its predecessor, the 180 nm
GekkoGekko is a 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the Nintendo GameCube.-Development:...
used in
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Broadway is being produced by IBM at their 300 mm semiconductor development and manufacturing facility in
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Broadway is the codename of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) used in
Nintendo'sis a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
WiiThe is a home video game console released by Nintendo. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of both...
video game consoleA video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...
. It was designed by
IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating...
, and is currently being produced using a 90 nm
SOISilicon on insulator technology refers to the use of a layered silicon-insulator-silicon substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance and thereby improving performance...
process.
According to IBM, the processor consumes 20% less power than its predecessor, the 180 nm
GekkoGekko is a 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the Nintendo GameCube.-Development:...
used in
Nintendo'sis a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel...
GameCubeThe is Nintendo's fourth home video game console with Wii being fifth, and is part of the sixth generation console era. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and predecessor to Nintendo's Wii....
video game consoleA video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...
.
Broadway is being produced by IBM at their 300 mm semiconductor development and manufacturing facility in
East FishkillEast Fishkill is a town on the southern border of Dutchess County, New York, United States. The population was 25,589 at the 2000 census. The town name is derived from its formation from Fishkill, NY....
,
New YorkNew York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. The bond, assembly and test operation for the Broadway module is performed at the IBM facility in Bromont,
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. Very few official details have been released to the public by Nintendo or IBM. Unofficial reports claim it is derived from the 485 MHz
GekkoGekko is a 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the Nintendo GameCube.-Development:...
architecture used in the GameCube and runs 50% faster at 729 MHz.
In March 2009 IBM shipped the 50 millionth Broadway processor to Nintendo.
Specifications
- 90 nanometer process technology
- Power Architecture
Power Architecture is a broad term to describe similar RISC instruction sets for microprocessors developed and manufactured by such companies as IBM, Freescale, AMCC, Tundra and P.A. Semi...
core, specially modified for the Wii platform
- IBM silicon on insulator
Silicon on insulator technology refers to the use of a layered silicon-insulator-silicon substrate in place of conventional silicon substrates in semiconductor manufacturing, especially microelectronics, to reduce parasitic device capacitance and thereby improving performance...
(SOI) technology
- Backward compatible with the Gekko
Gekko is a 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the Nintendo GameCube.-Development:...
processor
- 729 MHz
- 32-bit integer
- 64-bit floating-point (or 2 × 32-bit SIMD)
- 64 KB L1 cache (32 KB instruction + 32 KB data)
- 256 KB L2 cache
- 2.9 GFLOPS