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 ...

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 ...

What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip with clock speeds from 60 to 80 MHz. Over the years, the Power Macs dramatically increased in ...

and BARCELONA, Spain, June 8-- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in semiconductor design software, and IBM today announced the availability of fully synthesizable versions of IBM's PowerPC ...