Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Mon 15th Jul 2002 01:14 UTC
According to a brief paragraph on MacOS Rumours Apple may be switching to IBM POWER4 CPUs instead of the Motorola G5 for future Macs.
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>>>If I remember correctly, the PowerPC architecture IS a POWER4 derivative design.
No, PowerPC was derived from the original Power architecture and the only powerpc chip that is both powerpc compliant and power1 compliant is the powerpc 601.
After that, both architectures diverged significantly.