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PowerPC was a reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture (RISC ISA) developed jointly by Apple Computer, IBM, and Motorola, in what was known as the AIM alliance or PowerPC alliance. It was developed to compete against the proliferation of Wintel (a portmanteau Intel and Windows) computer systems in the early 1990s. Apple Inc. (neé Computer) continued using PowerPC as their processor architecture of choice until 2005, when they announced that they were to transition to x86-based Intel processors for all their machines. PowerPC processors were also used in Nintendo's GameCube, Wii, and Wii U consoles, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
PowerOpen[1]
1991 (prototype)
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PowerPC
1991 (unused)[2]
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1992–2005
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References
| Predecessors International Time Recording Company | Computing Scale Company | Bundy Manufacturing Company | Tabulating Machine Company Services and software
Computer systems and hardware Discontinued/Formerly
1Sold or spun off.  |
| Successors Motorola Mobility | Motorola Solutions Defunct Mobile phones  |