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  2. PowerPC 600 - Wikipedia

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    The PowerPC 601 was used in the first Power Macintosh computers from Apple, and in a variety of RS/6000 workstations and SMP servers from IBM and Groupe Bull. IBM was the sole manufacturer of the 601 and 601+ microprocessors in its Burlington, Vermont and East Fishkill, New York production facilities. The 601 used the IBM CMOS-4s process and ...

  3. Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card - Wikipedia

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    The Processor upgrade card required the original CPU be plugged back into the card itself, and gave the machine the ability to run in its original 68040 configuration, or through the use of a software configuration utility allowed booting as a PowerPC 601 computer running at twice the original speed in MHz (50 MHz or 66 MHz) with 32 KB of L1 ...

  4. PowerPC - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, the IBM PowerPC desktops did not ship, although the reference design (codenamed Sandalbow) based on the PowerPC 601 CPU was released as an RS/6000 model (Byte ' s April 1994 issue included an extensive article about the Apple and IBM PowerPC desktops). Apple, which also lacked a PowerPC based OS, took a different route.

  5. List of PowerPC processors - Wikipedia

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    Apple UniNorth 2 AGP used in PowerPC 74xx Based Macs. Apple used their own type of northbridges which were custom ASICs manufactured by VLSI(later Philips),Texas Instruments and Lucent (later agere systems) List of Northbridge for PowerPC: IBM: CPC 700 and CPC 710 for IBM PowerPC 750 series. CPC 925 and CPC 945 for IBM PowerPC 970 series.

  6. Power Macintosh 6100 - Wikipedia

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    The original Power Macintosh 6100 is based on the 60 MHz PowerPC 601 processor. [6] The base model was complemented by an AV version, which included an add-on card fitted in its Processor Direct Slot that added audio and visual enhancements such as composite and S-video input/output and full 48 kHz 16-bit DAT-resolution sound processing.

  7. List of Mac models grouped by CPU type - Wikipedia

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    An IBM PowerPC 970FX ("G5") processor. The PowerPC 970 ("G5") was the first 64-bit Mac processor. The PowerPC 970MP was the first dual-core Mac processor and the first to be found in a quad-core configuration. It was also the first Mac processor with partitioning and virtualization capabilities.

  8. IBM POWER architecture - Wikipedia

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    The ISA evolved into the PowerPC instruction set architecture and was deprecated in 1998 when IBM introduced the POWER3 processor that was mainly a 32/64-bit PowerPC processor but included the IBM POWER architecture for backwards compatibility. The original IBM POWER architecture was then abandoned.

  9. 600 nm process - Wikipedia

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    Intel 80486DX4 CPU launched in 1994 was manufactured using this process.; IBM/Motorola PowerPC 601, the first PowerPC chip, was produced in 600 nm.; Intel Pentium (P54C) CPUs at 75 MHz, 90 MHz and 100 MHz were also manufactured using this process.