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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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    Apple's lineup to utilize the PowerPC 970 CPU, the others being the iMac G5 and the Xserve G5. Three generations of Power Mac G5 were released before it was...
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  • selected the 64-bit IBM-produced PowerPC 970 processor as the basis for its PowerPC G5 series. The last desktop model that used the G4 was the Mac Mini. The...
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    The iMac G5 returned to a more traditional design after the "sunflower" iMac G4. The computer was designed around the need to cool its PowerPC 970 processor...
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    Xserve (redirect from Xserve G5)
    optical drives was also available. The first Xserve had a PowerPC G4 processor, replaced by a PowerPC G5 in 2004, and by Intel Xeon processors in 2006; each...
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  • PowerPC project to succeed its own PPC 74x PowerPC G5, the PowerPC 970 microprocessor from IBM iMac G5, an all-in-one desktop computer by Apple Power...
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  • Motorola G5 project was an unsuccessful attempt around 2000-2001 to create a 64-bit PowerPC processor, as a successor to Motorola's PowerPC 7400 series...
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  • was the first Mac processor over 1 GHz. The PowerPC 970 ("G5") was the first 64-bit Mac processor. The PowerPC 970MP was the first dual-core Mac processor...
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  • The following is a list of PowerPC processors. 601 50 and 66 MHz 602 consumer products (multiplexed data/address bus) 603/603e/603ev notebooks, embedded...
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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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  • 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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    significantly behind competing computers in performance. The G5 closed much of this gap by moving to the PowerPC 970 processor with clock speeds up to 2.0 GHz, and...
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    Power Mac with a processor from IBM's PowerPC G5 product line, the first personal computer to feature a 64-bit processor. He promised a 3 GHz Power Mac...
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  • specifications in June 2010 called the e5500. PowerPC e5500 PowerPC e500 Motorola G5 project (Motorola's defunct 64-bit PowerPC project) Multi-Core Design: Key Challenges...
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    2006 as part of its PowerBook line of notebooks. The PowerBook G4 runs on the RISC-based PowerPC G4 processor, designed by the AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola)...
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  • Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell Processor - 2005 IBM PowerPC G5 970FX - 2004 IBM PowerPC G5 970MP - 2005 IBM PowerPC G5 970GX - 2005 IBM "Waternoose" Xbox 360 Processor...
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    64-bit CPUs were introduced to the mainstream PC market in the form of x86-64 processors and the PowerPC G5. A 64-bit register can hold any of 264 (over...
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  • (PlayStation 2) – 2003 IBM PowerPC G5 970FX – 2004 Elpida Memory's 90 nm DDR2 SDRAM process – 2005 IBM PowerPC G5 970MP – 2005 IBM PowerPC G5 970GX – 2005 IBM Waternoose...
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    part of the Power Macintosh line. Built around the PowerPC G4 series of microprocessors, the Power Mac G4 was marketed by Apple as the first "personal...
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    some success in making their PowerPC G5 processor consume less power and run cooler, but not enough to run in iBook or PowerBook formats. In October 2005...
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    freely moving arm attached to it. The third and fourth revisions, the iMac G5 and the Intel iMac, placed all the components immediately behind the display...
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    Ppc64 (category PowerPC microprocessors)
    Chiselwatt, open source soft core Defunct 64-bit PowerPC processors are the Motorola G5 and PowerPC e700. "Gentoo Handbook: Main Page". gentoo.org. April...
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  • Mac OS 9 (category PowerPC operating systems)
    Classic environment. All G5 Macs are unable to boot directly into Mac OS 9 at all because there was no support for PowerPC G5 processors on Mac OS 9 (Mac...
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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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    68LC040 processor, the 100 series PowerBooks span the entire Apple 68K line, with the 190 even upgradable to a PowerPC processor. In 1992, Apple released...
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  • family of Pentium III processors. Motorola PowerPC 7447 and 7457 2002 IBM Gekko (GameCube) IBM PowerPC G5 970 - October 2002 - June 2003 Intel Pentium...
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  • AltiVec (redirect from POWER VSX)
    alliance. It is implemented on versions of the PowerPC processor architecture, including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's PWRficient...
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  • playing back HD DVD content burned to a standard DVD, Apple requires a PowerPC G5, Apple DVD Player v4.6, and Mac OS X v10.4 or later. Version 4 was the...
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  • of marketing Phil Schiller introduced the new updated iMac featuring a PowerPC G5 processor and other various updates, notably, the integration of the logic...
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    Northbridge (computing) (category IBM PC compatibles)
    as the PowerPC platform. A common example of a northbridge on a PowerPC platform is in Apple's older PowerPC-based computers like the iMac G5, which utilized...
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