A guy claiming to be working at SEGA, and a former NOA employee has posted that the Nintendo Revolution will feature, an i quote...
"Now the cores themselves are completely custom-made by a different team than the core for the Xbox 360. It’s known as the RN520, where the N actually stands for Nintendo. One core in itself, isn’t as fast as the R500-ish core of the Xbox 360, but together they are quite a bit more powerful. The CPU consists of four cores each running at 2,5 GHz and is based on the G5 architecture. Each core has it’s own 128KB L1 cachememory, and they all share a L2 cache of 512KB. Next to this, the CPU and GPU share 512MB of memory, just like the Xbox 360 does. Also, the GPU has it’s own on-die memory for quick tasks which amounts to 16MB of eDRAM.
There’s also a seperate processor for sound, which is quite advanced and takes a lot of workload off the CPU. Last but not least, the Revolution features a PPU for complex physics, which utilizes it’s own 32MB of memory. So all in all, it’s quite the complex machine with many different processors. Still, it’s rather easy to develop for because of the excellent development tools which Nintendo delivered. These are all GameCube based with a lot of completely new features built-in. "
Found the info on a message board which posted the above and heaps more....find it here....
http://ps3.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=482&st=0
I didnt want to start yet another Nintendo Revolution thread....but this info is preety cool, to those who are interested in it.
Cheers.
P.S.>> to those of you who think Nintendo is #3 and going to pull a SEGA, please read
http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEEFylpkElFffmiBlr.php for detailed sales information of the big 3.
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