Got bored and did some ghetto photoshopping since y'all were all yapping on about size:
Going by Nintendo's numbers the console is 10.6x6.75", figured the connectors front to back would approximate 10.6", then just did 6" for the height here...cause it was an easy number to round down to, and assuming the board doesn't go completely towards the edges in the case.
So from that, the chip looks to be around 1.5-1.6" square. Hard to tell cause there's only so many pixels left, but the CPU die (assuming the smaller silver block) looks around 5mmx6mm, or 30mm^2, then around 160-170mm^2 for the GPU die.
For a 45nm comparison, the A5X in "The new" iPad is 163mm^2, about the size of the Wii U's GPU die. Detailed layout here, the dual ARM cores appear to take up about 17mm^2 according to that picture.
...not that any of that helps to predict the CPU in the Wii U since the power envelope for it is magnitudes higher than ARM cores
Going by Nintendo's numbers the console is 10.6x6.75", figured the connectors front to back would approximate 10.6", then just did 6" for the height here...cause it was an easy number to round down to, and assuming the board doesn't go completely towards the edges in the case.
So from that, the chip looks to be around 1.5-1.6" square. Hard to tell cause there's only so many pixels left, but the CPU die (assuming the smaller silver block) looks around 5mmx6mm, or 30mm^2, then around 160-170mm^2 for the GPU die.
For a 45nm comparison, the A5X in "The new" iPad is 163mm^2, about the size of the Wii U's GPU die. Detailed layout here, the dual ARM cores appear to take up about 17mm^2 according to that picture.
...not that any of that helps to predict the CPU in the Wii U since the power envelope for it is magnitudes higher than ARM cores