IBM Gekko RISC microprocessor

Title: IBM Gekko RISC microprocessor
Description: Square silver chip / block located on the motherboard.
Function: The console's main CPU. Image processing functions: Fog, subpixel anti-aliasing, 8 hardware lights, alpha blending, virtual texture design, multi-texturing, bump mapping, envrionment mapping, MIP mapping, bilinear filtering, trilinear filtering, anisotropic filtering, real-time hardware texture decompression (S3TC), real-time decompression of display list, HW 3-line deflickering filter.
Identifier: PPCDBK-EFB486X3
Country of Origin: United States
Part Number: 45L8926ESD
Date Code: IBM2000
Date Created: 2000
Other Markings: GE
Manufacturer: IBM
Raw Materials: 0.18 Copper wire
Evidence: Research through the part's datasheet and other misc. sources found secondhand through the component's Wikipedia article
Sources: Datasheet; Wikipedia Article
Curator: Ryan Lopez and James Fendley
Is Part Of: GameCube