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IBM, Motorola sign on to single PowerPC chip

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday May 7, 1999 @03:04AM from the playing-nicely-with-the-other-vendors dept.

Toddius Maximus writes "The on-again off-again partnership between IBM and Motorola to design a single PowerPC architecture appears to be on again. The companies made a joint announcement Wednesday that they will work together on an embedded version of the PowerPC that will be targeted at networking and telecommunications devices.Story here. "

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The article's a little off by webslacker · 1999-05-07 03:35 · Score: 5

It doesn't mention the new architecture's name or main purpose.

The architecture's name is Book E, and it was designed to allow IBM and Motorola to make their own customizations and still stay compatible. Embedded processors were the main drive for Book E, but it's also useful to the PowerPC processors for use in PowerMacs. However, the effects of Book E will not be felt to Mac users until after the G4 processors have collected a little dust.