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IBM's PowerPC Motherboard Design?

Posted by Cliff on from the has-it-spawned-products-yet? dept.

bob_shoggoth asks: "A while ago IBM released a royalty-free motherboard design around their PowerPC chips. Have any computers based on this design actually been made? I would consider a PowerPC computer for running Linux if I could actually find a reasonably priced one. Since Linux (and the BSD's) have such good cross-platform support, why do I seem to be limited to just the x86 platform when there is a market that does not need binary backwards compatibility?"

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  1. NorthBridge was never produced in Volume by bstadil · · Score: 3

    The IBM POP design used a NorthBridge Designed by a Non IBM company called Aleate or something. The chip had problems and could not be produced in volume. The POP design is dead but there is a few designs in the works but non in production AFAIK. You can make a PowerPC MB with mostly standard PC components except NorthBridge and cache for the PowerPC. Look at http://www.czuba-tech.com/RIORED/english/overview. htm for an open design done by SiliconFruit.

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