PowerPC was also IBM and Motorola. It's difficult to compare the Apple Silicon versus PowerPC, because the new Apple hardware is far more ambitious, the whole

PowerPC was also IBM and Motorola. It's difficult to compare the Apple Silicon versus PowerPC, because the new Apple hardware is far more ambitious, the whole platform. I would expect that the memory SSD controllers are to some degree licensed from other industry players. The CPU architecture is something else again. Issues eight instructions per clock -- per core. The M1 core design has more in common with IBM mainframe POWER9 than with a typical x86 core. It's remarkable to see this design ina low end consumer device. A mobile.