Power microprocessors (originally POWER prior to Power10) are designed and sold by IBM for servers and supercomputers. The name "POWER" was originally...
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PowerPC/Power ISA instruction set architecture IBM Power microprocessors, a line of microprocessors implementing the IBM POWER and the PowerPC/Power ISA...
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was the third generation PowerPC based on the 604 processor. PowerPC 970 IBM POWER architecture IBM Power microprocessors Power ISA List of Mac models grouped...
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The IBM RS64 is a family of microprocessors introduced by IBM in the mid 1990s, and used in the RS/6000 and AS/400 servers. These microprocessors implement...
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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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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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: 287–288 IBM approached Apple with the goal of collaborating on the development of a family of single-chip microprocessors based on the POWER architecture...
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POWER4 (category IBM microprocessors)
The POWER4 is a microprocessor developed by International Business Machines (IBM) that implemented the 64-bit PowerPC and PowerPC AS instruction set architectures...
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PowerPC IBM Power microprocessors, made by IBM, which implement those RISC architectures Power.org, a predecessor to the OpenPOWER Foundation Exponentiation...
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POWER5 (category IBM microprocessors)
embedded microprocessors in its high-end Infoprint printers. DCM POWER5 microprocessors are used by IBM in its high-end IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation...
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The ISA is used as base for high end microprocessors from IBM during the 1990s and were used in many of IBM's servers, minicomputers, workstations, and...
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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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Meltdown (security vulnerability) (category Intel x86 microprocessors)
Spectre). Meltdown affects Intel x86 microprocessors, IBM Power microprocessors, and some ARM-based microprocessors. It allows a rogue process to read all...
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POWER7 (category IBM microprocessors)
POWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the...
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POWER8 (category IBM microprocessors)
POWER8 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA, announced in August 2013 at the Hot Chips conference. The designs...
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Italy Advanced System Management Interface, found in some IBM POWER microprocessors based IBM servers Asmi Shrestha (born 1993), Nepalese model ASMI, 9mm...
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Power10 (category IBM microprocessors)
also has a logo. IBM Power microprocessors OpenPOWER Foundation POWER9 Dr. Cutress, Ian (August 17, 2020). "Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: IBM's POWER10 Processor...
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POWER9 (category IBM microprocessors)
family of superscalar, multithreading, multi-core microprocessors produced by IBM, based on the Power ISA. It was announced in August 2016. The POWER9-based...
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POWER2 (category IBM microprocessors)
custom VLSI chips, rather than the P2SCs. IBM POWER Instruction Set Architecture IBM Power microprocessors POWER1 POWER3 "GCC 4.5 Release Series — Changes...
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POWER3 (category IBM microprocessors)
The POWER3 is a microprocessor, designed and exclusively manufactured by IBM, that implemented the 64-bit version of the PowerPC instruction set architecture...
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POWER6 (redirect from IBM POWER6)
microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.05. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM's...
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space). IBM RAD6000 radiation hardened CPU based on RISC Single Chip core used by IBM RS/6000. RAD750 radiation hardened CPU based on PowerPC 750 core...
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late 1970s (Atari, Commodore, Apple computers) to up to 6 GHz in IBM Power microprocessors. Various computer buses, such as the front-side bus connecting...
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First Microprocessors". 30 August 2016. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Warnes, Lionel (2003). "Microprocessors and...
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Cell (processor) (redirect from IBM Cell)
developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM—an alliance known as "STI". It combines a general-purpose PowerPC core, named the Power Processing Element (PPE), with...
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(21 July 2000). "PowerPC 440GP: Great Communicator". Microprocessor Report. 405 core IBM PowerPC 440 core IBM PowerPC 460 core AMCC PowerPC 400 page...
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transistors. IBM Power microprocessors OpenPOWER Foundation POWER7 IBM (2020-06-27). "a2i on GitHub". IBM. A2I Explored - Bill Flynn, IBM A2I VHDL source...
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ISA based server and workstation computers such as IBM's Power line. Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation in 1986, AIX has supported...
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Rivina is an experimental 64-bit PowerPC microprocessor built by IBM in 2000. It was the successor to "guTS" (Gigahertz Unit Test Site) and the purpose...
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was an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with relatively low power consumption...
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