Wii chips

IBM says it has begun shipping a PowerPC CPU, code-named "Broadway," that was developed with Nintendo for its upcoming game console.

Nintendo announced that the Wii will debut in the U.S. on November 19 with a price tag of $250.

Here, IBM test engineer Jim Myers inspects a tray of Nintendo-bound chip modules at Big Blue's Burlington, Vt., test center.

September 14, 2006 8:48 AM PDT

Photo by: IBM