IBM: Wii U Processors Use Supercomputer Technology

At the E3 show last week, the Wii U and PS Vita were undoubtedly the hottest topics, but now it looks like the Wii U is more aggressive than the latter, because after all, it is a host machine, better and attractive. More features than PS Vita. IBM, which is responsible for providing the CPU for the Wii U, said today that it will apply the Watson technology to the Wii U processor.

IBM's supercomputer system has always been famous, from the "deep blue" then to "Watson" today. Watson is made up of 90 IBM Power 750 servers with a total of 16TB of memory, 4TB of clustered storage and 20 feet of height. Each Power 750 server uses four Power7 processors, eight cores, and a total of 2,880 Power7 cores. In the system architecture design, Watson uses an effective balancing technology to ensure that each chip's kernel shares computing tasks. Power7 processor clocked up to 3.55GHz, can guarantee 500Gb bandwidth throughput per second, so the entire supercomputer can complete 180000Gb calculations per second.

Earlier this year, Watson simulated human players to participate in the “Jeopardy” (edge ​​of crisis) quiz contest and defeated two human champions.

According to related rumours, the code name "Fox" (fox) of the CPU of the Wii U, based on the Power6 microarchitecture, is obviously different from Watson's Power7 architecture, but so far, IBM has not explained what kind of technology it is applied to. To Wii U's processor, the answer to the Wii U's launch is likely to be revealed.