PowerPC
Also known as ppc
thumb|IBM PowerPC 601 microprocessor
Key facts
- CPU architecture.name
- PowerPC
- CPU architecture.designer
- AIM
- CPU architecture.bits
- 32-bit/64-bit (32 → 64)
- CPU architecture.version
- 2.02
- CPU architecture.design
- RISC
- CPU architecture.type
- Load–store
- CPU architecture.encoding
- Fixed/Variable (Book E)
- CPU architecture.branching
- Condition code
- CPU architecture.endianness
- Big/Bi
- CPU architecture.extensions
- AltiVec, PowerPC AS, APU
- CPU architecture.gpr
- 32
- CPU architecture.fpr
- 32
Article
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Apple and Motorola involvement
- Operating systems
- Breakup of AIM
- Generations
- Design features
- Implementations
- Operating systems
- Native
- Embedded
- Licensees
- 32-bit PowerPC
- 64-bit PowerPC
- Game consoles / Arcade system boards
- Desktop computers
- Embedded applications
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|IBM PowerPC 601 microprocessor
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 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 as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture–based processors.