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Article: Mac (under) the knife: piecing together the PowerPC puzzle: Apple's dropping the PowerPC and moving to X86. Microsoft's dropping X86 and moving to the PowerPC, joining Nintendo and Sony. Which company is right, or are they all right? And what's the best choice for your design?(Cover Story)
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- September 15, 2005
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Three notable events in the high-tech industry so far this year have particularly influenced the status of the PowerPC CPU in embedded-system applications and the broader electronics market. Beginning in mid-March, IBM published a series of articles promoting the Apple Mac Mini as an embedded hardware- and software-development platform, both under the Mac OS and with various iterations of Linux and BSD Unix (references 1 and 2; see sidebar "Linux: a work in progress"). In mid-May, all three next-generation game consoles (Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Revolution, and Sony's PlayStation 3), containing various spins of the PowerPC architecture, went public at the E3 Expo. ...
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