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General information | |
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Launched | 2000 |
Discontinued | 2007 |
Designed by | IBM and Nintendo |
Common manufacturer | |
Performance | |
Max. CPU clock rate | 486 MHz |
Cache | |
L1 cache | 32/32 KB |
L2 cache | 256 KB |
Architecture and classification | |
Application | GameCube Triforce Arcade Board |
Technology node | 180 nm |
Microarchitecture | PowerPC G3 |
Instruction set | PowerPC ISA 1.10 |
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Products, models, variants | |
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History | |
Predecessor | NEC VR4300 |
Successor | Broadway |
POWER, PowerPC, and Power ISA architectures |
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NXP (formerly Freescale and Motorola) |
IBM |
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IBM/Nintendo |
Other |
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Cancelled in gray, historic in italic |
Gekko is a superscalar out-of-order 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom-made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the GameCube, and later the Triforce Arcade Board.