• Microprocessors belonging to the PowerPC/Power ISA architecture family have been used in numerous applications. Apple Computer was the dominant player...
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    Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on...
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    PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, and PowerPC 970MP are 64-bit PowerPC CPUs from IBM introduced in 2002. Apple branded the 970 as PowerPC G5 for its Power Mac...
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  • Rosetta (software) (category PowerPC emulators)
    Tiger as part of the Mac transition from PowerPC processors to Intel processors, allowing PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Macs. Support for...
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  • The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and...
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  • The PowerPC 400 family is a line of 32-bit embedded RISC processor cores based on the PowerPC or Power ISA instruction set architectures. The cores are...
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  • bus interface for PowerPC CPU. PowerPro (CA91L750) – Memory controller for PowerPC CPU. PowerPC applications Power ISA List of PowerPC-based game consoles...
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  • 32-bit (but not 64-bit) PowerPC applications were supported on Intel processors with Rosetta. 4.↑ 64-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon...
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  • PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various...
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  • the last PowerPC-based game console to remain in production, was discontinued in 2017.[citation needed] PowerPC applications List of PowerPC processors...
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  • The PowerPC 7xx is a family of third generation 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola (spun off as Freescale Semiconductor...
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  • 32-bit (but not 64-bit) PowerPC applications were supported on Intel processors with Rosetta. 4.↑ 64-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon...
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  • SC3900 DSPs for high end telecom applications such as 4G/LTE macrocells running at 1.6 and 1.8 GHz. QorIQ PowerPC e5500 powerpc-notebook.org homepage — The...
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  • applications. After two years of development, the resulting PowerPC ISA was introduced in 1993. A modified version of the RSC architecture, PowerPC added...
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  • For applications running under this new PowerPC ABox kernel 68k code runs as subroutines inside PowerPC tasks. For 68k or PowerPC applications it's fully...
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    booting on PowerPC as of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard in August 2009, three years after the transition was complete. Support for PowerPC applications via Rosetta...
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  • The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core is compatible with the older PowerPC Book E specification as well...
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  • Free and open source software portal PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions...
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  • integrated circuit (ASIC) offerings.[citation needed] Many high volume applications embed PowerPC cores. In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective...
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  • The PowerPC 5000 family is a series of PowerPC and Power ISA microprocessors from Freescale (previously Motorola) and STMicroelectronics designed for automotive...
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  • PowerQUICC is the name for several PowerPC- and Power ISA-based microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor. They are built around one or more PowerPC...
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  • The PowerPC e5500 is a 64-bit Power ISA-based microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core implements most of the core of the Power ISA...
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  • The PowerPC e200 is a family of 32-bit Power ISA microprocessor cores developed by Freescale for primary use in automotive and industrial control systems...
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  • graphics cards in their applications. It was also the first Mac OS release since System 7.1.1 to not support Macs using PowerPC processors, as Apple dropped...
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    Ppc64 (category PowerPC microprocessors)
    communities to refer to the target architecture for applications optimized for 64-bit big-endian PowerPC and Power ISA processors. ppc64le is a pure little-endian...
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    select between the PowerPC or Intel builds of an application is also used to select between the 32-bit or 64-bit builds of either PowerPC or Intel architectures...
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  • IBM RS64 (redirect from PowerPC AS)
    intensive commercial applications that were being created for AS/400s. IBM president Jack Kuehler wanted the AS/400 team to use PowerPC, but they resisted...
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    system running on a series of 64-bit PowerPC-derived CPUs, the IBM RS64 family. Due to the use of TIMI, applications for the original CISC-based programs...
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  • Mac OS 9 (category PowerPC operating systems)
    OS 9.1) PowerPC versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.5 Leopard include a compatibility layer called Classic, enabling users to run applications and hardware...
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  • high performance routing and telecommunications applications. The e600 is the continuation of the PowerPC 74xx design. The e600 is a superscalar out-of-order...
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