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Apple at the time of the x86 switch was roughly 3% of the PPC chip market.
by datadeft 3y ago
Apple at the time of the x86 switch was roughly 3% of the PPC chip market.
- Sardtok 3y agoThis is the 68K->PPC switch about a decade earlier.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoHuh. What was yet other 97?
- gumby 3y agoIBM and a lot of systems that had been 68K. Though the architectures were different a lot of 68K assumptions were maintained in the PPC so porting was easier.
- philwelch 3y agoIn part, all three 7th generation game consoles (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii).
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- datadeft 3y agoPrinters, game consoles, supercomputers.
- Someone 3y agoAnd cars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_5000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_5000, https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221903-400-programmed-to-win/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221903-400-programm..., https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42065/reasons-for-popularity-of-powerpc-for-embedded-designs https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/42065/reason...)