“The Nintendo Wii is the first SI has seen of the 90nm IBM processor, codenamed “Broadway”, designed solely for Nintendo using IBM’c Power architecture. The processor features silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, which improves processing power and reduces energy consumption by 20%. “Nintendo has used both 1T-SRAM and eDRAM technology,” said Don Scansen, SI’s lead process technology analyst. “It remains to be seen if the NEC-MoSys co-designed 90nm embedded DRAM will provide enough power to compete with the game play offered by Microsoft and Sony.”
