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In April 2008, IBM officially merged the two lines of servers and workstations under the same name, Power, [2] and later Power Systems, with identical hardware and a choice of operating systems, software, and service contracts, [3] based formerly on a POWER6 architecture. The PowerPC line was discontinued.
IBM: CPC 700 and CPC 710 for IBM PowerPC 750 series. CPC 925 and CPC 945 for IBM PowerPC 970 series. Motorola (now available from Tundra): MPC-105; MPC-106; MPC-107; Mentor Arc Inc. (MAI). Articia S. Marvell Discovery series for Motorola MPC74xx and MPC75x and IBM 750 series CPU. Discovery ( GT-64260A, GT-64261A and GT-64262A).
IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC. [1] The ISA is used as base for high end microprocessors from IBM during the 1990s and were used in many of IBM's servers, minicomputers, workstations, and ...
In this case, it is PowerPC and Power ISA, processor architectures initially developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance, i.e. Apple, IBM, and Motorola. Even though these consoles share much in regard to instruction set architecture , game consoles are still highly specialized computers so it is not common for games to be readily portable ...
In 1974 IBM started a project to build a telephone switching computer that required, for the time, immense computational power. Since the application was comparably simple, this machine would need only to perform I/O, branches, add register-register, move data between registers and memory, and would have no need for special instructions to perform heavy arithmetic.
POWER9 is a family of superscalar, multithreading, multi-core microprocessors produced by IBM, based on the Power ISA.It was announced in August 2016. [2] The POWER9-based processors are being manufactured using a 14 nm FinFET process, [3] in 12- and 24-core versions, for scale out and scale up applications, [3] and possibly other variations, since the POWER9 architecture is open for licensing ...
The IBM System p is a high-end line of RISC /UNIX-based servers. It was the successor of the RS/6000 line, and predecessor of the IBM Power Systems server series. History
POWER was an operating system enhancement available for DOS/360, DOS/VS, and DOS/VSE, and came packaged with some third party DOS-based operating systems. International Business Machines released POWER in 1969 following a public introduction at the IBM Wall Street Data Center.