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Specific Northbridge IC must be used for PowerPC CPU. It is impossible to use Northbridge for Intel or AMD x86 CPU with PowerPC CPU. However it is possible to use certain types of x86 Southbridge in PowerPC based motherboards. Example: VIA 686B and AMD Geode CS5536. Apple UniNorth 2 AGP used in PowerPC 74xx Based Macs
Linux has run on IBM POWER systems since 2001, when a team created a new, 64-bit port for the Linux kernel to allow the OS to run on PowerPC processors. [3] The first system to fully support the 64-bit Linux kernel was IBM's POWER5, created in 2004. It was followed by POWER6 in 2007 and the current POWER7-based systems in 2010.
The name is derived from drawing the architecture in the fashion of a map. The CPU would be at the top of the map comparable to due north on most general purpose geographical maps. The CPU would be connected to the chipset via a fast bridge (the northbridge) located north of other system devices as drawn. The northbridge would then be connected ...
Adamcon (Coleco Adam user group) Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG) SHARE; Macintosh User Groups in the UK; DUsers, the first Macintosh users group, based at Drexel University; IIUG International Informix Users Group; COMMON for Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400, iSeries, System i, AIX and Linux) users in North America.
Power ISA is an evolution of the PowerPC ISA, created by the mergers of the core PowerPC ISA and the optional Book E for embedded applications. The merger of these two components in 2006 was led by Power.org founders IBM and Freescale Semiconductor .
This provides a convenient development environment for PowerPC-based real-time, embedded systems. Power.org has a Power Architecture Platform Reference (PAPR) that provides the foundation for development of Power ISA-based computers running the Linux operating system. PAPR was released in the fourth quarter of 2006.
All three major seventh-generation game consoles contain PowerPC-based processors. Sony's PlayStation 3 console, released in November 2006, contains a Cell processor, including a 3.2 GHz PowerPC control processor and eight closely threaded DSP-like accelerator processors, seven active and one spare; Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, released in 2005, includes a 3.2 GHz custom IBM PowerPC chip with ...
PowerPC architecture (powerpc): IBM's Cell; Most pre-Intel Apple computers (all PCI-based Power Macintoshes, limited support for the older NuBus Power Macs) Clones of the PCI Power Mac marketed by Power Computing, UMAX and Motorola; Amigas upgraded with a "Power-UP" card (such as the Blizzard or CyberStorm) AmigaOne motherboard from Eyetech ...