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Re:Google's POWER8 server motherboard by hwd on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @09:42AM (#7666891)
I think you are mixing up Power and PowerPC (which was created by IBM, Apple and Motorola in 1991).
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Re:Google's POWER8 server motherboard by zymhan on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @09:54AM (#7666948)
What exactly is the difference? Looking at this Wikipedia article, it looks like PPC is the descendant to the Power ISA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_Instruction_Set_Arch...

EDIT: Digging a little more gave me the answer: "The POWERn family of processors were developed in the late 1980s and are still in active development nearly 25 years later. In the beginning, they utilized the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), but that evolved into PowerPC in later generations and then to Power Architecture. Today, only the naming scheme remains the same; modern POWER processors do not use the POWER ISA."

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

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Re:Google's POWER8 server motherboard by valarauca1 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:41AM (#7667270)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/PowerISA...

Gives a nice visual presentation of what happened.

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