Power Architecture

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Power Architecture is a RISC-based microprocessor instruction set architecture developed by IBM and its partners, used in a wide range of embedded, server, and high-performance computing systems.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf RISC architecture
instruction set architecture
architectureFamily PowerPC
surface form: POWER/PowerPC family
basedOn POWER instruction set architecture
PowerPC
surface form: PowerPC architecture
computingParadigm reduced instruction set computing
developer AMCC
Freescale Semiconductor
IBM
hasComponent operating environment architecture
user-level instructions
virtual environment architecture
hasDesignGoal binary compatibility across implementations
high performance
power efficiency
scalability
hasFeature branch prediction support
condition register
fixed-length instructions
general-purpose registers
load-store architecture
hasSubArchitecture Book I
Book II
Book III
Power ISA
surface form: POWER ISA

PowerPC
surface form: PowerPC ISA
introducedBy IBM
standardizedBy Power.org
supports 32-bit implementation
64-bit implementation
SIMD extensions
big-endian mode
floating-point operations
hardware multithreading
little-endian mode
virtual memory
usedBy Cell Broadband Engine
IBM Power Systems
surface form: IBM POWER processors

PowerPC
surface form: IBM PowerPC processors

IBM Power Systems
surface form: IBM System i servers

IBM Power Systems
surface form: IBM System p servers

Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo Wii
Sony PlayStation 3
network processors
usedIn automotive systems
embedded systems
game consoles
high-performance computing systems
networking equipment
servers
telecommunications equipment

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PowerPC compatibleWith Power Architecture
Power.org focusesOn Power Architecture
PowerPC influenced Power Architecture
AIM alliance relatedConcept Power Architecture