Power.org Merges Power Instruction Sets, Gets New Members
August 7, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Having managed in February to get Freescale Semiconductor to join the Power.org community that IBM created to give others a voice in what happens with the Power chip architecture, the two companies have announced that they are now beginning the important work of creating a merged instruction set architecture, or ISA in chip geek speak, for Power that combines elements from IBM, Motorola, and other designs. Way back in 1991, when the PowerPC Alliance got its start, IBM and Motorola (which spun out Freescale two years ago because it did not want to be in the server, desktop, or embedded |