MCM without the heat spreader. The smaller ship is the “Espresso” CPU made by IBM. The other chips are the “Latte” GPGPU (large chip) from AMD and an EEPROM chip (small) from Renesas. The Wii U’s project name was Project Café. (I wonder why?)
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