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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by btian on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:03PM (#16737247)
Except PPC was Motorola and IBM, not Apple
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by justherefortart on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:37PM (#16737721)
Aww, young'uns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been named Power ISA, while the old name lives on as a trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture-based processors.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by endorphone on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:38PM (#16737738)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by monocasa on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:43PM (#16737792)
Apple contributed heavily; they're the ones who basically invented Altivec.
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