But if you’ve only encountered the PowerPC architecture in slightly older Macs and some game consoles, what’s the chip powering this device? The answer is, not one of those venerable chips ...

First up is a submission by [rusbus]. He had a Power Macintosh 6100/60 lying around – the first Macintosh with a PowerPC processor instead of the Motorola 68k – and loaded up our retro site.

Many semiconductors rely on intellectual property owned by a handful of mostly American firms. However, the open-source ...

The Design of a PowerPC system-on-a-chip processor which integrates high speed state of the art 800 MHz PowerPC IP, DDRII-667 memory controller, RAID assist logic, and three PCI-X DDR266 interfaces ...

What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip with clock speeds from 60 to 80 MHz. Over the years, the Power Macs dramatically increased in ...

It will not be the end of the technology ? IBM and Motorola have pledged to continue to develop versions of the PowerPC chip for their own ranges. But it is clear from the announcement they will ...

Don't hold your breath for GameCube or Wii emulation on iPhone - Apple is blocking a key technology to make it happen.

The most significant difference is that PowerPC is a big-endian company that first stores the most significant value. At the same time, the Intel Pentium II processor used for EXO Lab’s ...

A second generation [1] 800MHz PowerPC SOC working with 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory and on-chip L2 cache, executes up to 1600 DMIPS is described in this paper. It is designed around an high speed central ...

In 1994, Apple introduced the Power Macs, which used the higher-performance PowerPC chip designed by Apple, Motorola and IBM. Power Macs ran native PowerPC applications and emulated traditional ...

As his “One More Thing” at WWDC 2003, Jobs spoke about the chip, the system, then the product, building a story of power and capability unrivaled in the PC world. At the heart of this new Mac was the ...