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Nintendo Wii U Teardown

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The shields are down! A quick pass with a heat gun and we get our first look at the CPU and GPU, both covered in ample thermal compound.

GPU: AMD Radeon™-based High Definition GPU.

CPU: IBM Power®-based multi-core processor.

We believe Nintendo placed these ICs close to one another to reduce latency and power consumption.

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