Word: microprocessor
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...PowerPC refers to a family of microprocessors--the "brain" of personal computers and workstations--made in a joint effort by IBM, Apple and Motorola. It implements the so-called POWER architecture--how the microprocessor itself works as well as how it interfaces with the other components of a computer--originally developed by IBM and used in its successful RS/6000 series...
Last month IBM rolled out a line of workstations based on the PowerPC 601 chip (another term for microprocessor). While the chip itself costs only half as much as a Pentium chip from Intel Corp., the cost of the IBM machines is driven up by power features and priced toward the workstation market. Rumor has it that both IBM and Apple will release PowerPC-based personal computers next year...
...waste tons of time deciding whether to buy a PC (one that uses an Intel microprocessor; often called an IBM-compatible or clone) or a Macintosh. The truth is today there really isn't much difference between the two. PCs used to be super-cheap; but now the price war in the personal computer industry has forced Apple to roll out several affordable models. Macs formerly were the only computers that were user-friendly; but a PC equipped with Microsoft Windows or IBM's OS/2 2.1 is just as easy...
...this into some perspective, consider Intel's newly released Pentium chip. This successor to the company's popular 80486 microprocessor contains an astonishing 3.1 million transistors on a die about the size of a quarter...
Back in C.S. 148, soon everyone realized it was simply unrealistic to try to build a microprocessor. We were further discouraged when told that last year some people did undertake such an endeavor, but the team just "disintegrated after a while," according to the instructor, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Woodward Yang, who has taught the course since last spring...