↑ Looking Back: Jaguar was not the first Jaguar project at Apple, nor the first one to run Mach by Anthony Frausto, Architosh. ↑ Remembering the Final PowerPC Macs by Dan Bashur, Low End Mac. Starting with the PowerPC G3, Apple started using marketing names and images that did not necessarily reflect the appearance of the actual processor in the system: Exponential X 704 (the only PowerPC design from outside of the AIM alliance). Īt the Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple would transition to Intel processors. PowerPC also integrates some elements of Motorola's 88110, an earlier RISC processor that Apple had investigated in a research project called Jaguar. Newer chips in the POWER series implement the full PowerPC instruction set. PowerPC is largely based on IBM's earlier POWER architecture, and retains a high level of compatibility with it the architectures have remained close enough that the same programs and operating systems will run on both if some care is taken in preparation. The architecture was also used in video game consoles (such as the Apple/Bandai Pippin, Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Nintendo's GameCube, Wii, and Wii U) and embedded applications that far exceeded Apple's use. 
It is well known for being used by Apple's Power Macintosh lines from 1994 to 2006.
PowerPC was the cornerstone of AIM's PReP and Common Hardware Reference Platform initiatives in the 1990s.
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