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.

Last month, we looked at the Power Mac G4 line, a series of computers that defined the professional workstation for OS X users for ... At the heart of this new Mac was the PowerPC G5 processor.

It embeds an AltiVec SIMD engine, which allows the processor to deliver close to 10Gflop performance at full speed. The QML Y certified GHz-class microprocessor will be used in space payload ...

The original PowerPC alliance of IBM, Motorola and Apple was considered by many the dream ticket capable of challenging Intel?s dominance in the desktop processor market. The partners, however ...

II- SYSTEM OVERVIEW This SOC design consists of a high performance 32-bit RISC processor core, which is fully compliant with the PowerPC specification. The PowerPC architecture is well known for its ...

This paper describes in details the features that allow SoCs to be built with up to eight 1.6 GHz PowerPC CPU cores in an embedded system supporting Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) architecture. The ...