Wii Hardware/Hollywood

"Hollywood" is the name of the chipset inside of the Wii. The Hollywood chipset contains multiple pieces of hardware all lumped into one. Nintendo claims that the Hollywood package is the Wii's GPU, however, this is not the case. Hollywood contains the GPU, but it is not, itself, the GPU.

The Hollywood chip runs a 243MHz (162MHz in Back-Compat mode). It's contents run at various fractions of that speed.

Hollywood contents

The Hollywood chip contains the following:

• USB (EHCI, and 2x OHCI) Host Controllers
• SD Host Controller
• SHA-1 and AES engines to handle encryption
• NAND Interface
• 802.11 Wi-Fi Interface (Bluetooth is simply connected over the internal OHCI controller)
• GPIO Interface
• The Starlet ARM security co-processor @ chipset clock
• A new Wii Drive Interface replacing the legacy GameCube Drive Interface
• The GX GPU from ArtX, based on the same GX core in the Flipper chipset, running @ chipset clock
• An audio DSP by Macronix @ 1/2 chipset clock
• All of the legacy Flipper interfaces, like AI, SI, EXI, and so on.