I think it's officially Dolphin week on IGN64. This is sort of a regurgitation of the prior Gekko size story we ran a while back, but IGN64 offers more screen shots of the new Gekko processor.

Gekko processor mock-ups straight from IBM prove that it isn't the size of the chip that counts... but rather, what the chip is capable of.

And for IBM's 400 MHz Gekko processor, the power behind Nintendo's upcoming next-generation console, the sky is the limit. The innovative chip, an extension of IBM's PowerPC architecture, is said to be one of the fastest consumer-friendly processors in the making. Unlike most processors made today, Gekko utilizes 0.18 micron copper technology for microscopic chip designs smaller than anything else on the market -- and just as powerful.

To help illustrate just how tiny these things are, IBM has released a half-dozen mock-ups comparing the Gekko's size to various objects including fingernails and Nintendo 64 controllers.