PowerPC

PowerPC PowerPC a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been named Power ISA, while the old name naturally lives on, as a legacy trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture based processors, and in software package identifiers PowerPC was the cornerstone of AIMs PReP and Common Hardware Reference Platform initiatives in the 1990s Originally intended for personal computers, the architecture is well known for being used by Apples Power Macintosh, PowerBook, iMac, iBook, and Xserve lines from 1994 until 2006, when Apple migrated to Intels x86 It has since become niche in personal computers, but remain popular as embedded and high-performance processors Its use in video game consoles and embedded applications provided an array of uses In addition, PowerPC CPUs are still used in AmigaOne and third party AmigaOS 4 personal computers PowerPC is largely baspowerpc, powerpc applications are no longer supported, powerpc mac, powerpc processor, powerpc emulator, powerpc g4 PowerPC