Everything about POWER3
1998 family of microprocessors by IBM
The POWER3 is a microprocessor, designed and exclusively manufactured by IBM, that implemented the 64-bit version of the PowerPC instruction set architecture (ISA), including all of the optional instructions of the ISA such as instructions present in the POWER2 version of the POWER ISA but not in the PowerPC ISA. It was introduced on 5 October 1998, debuting in the RS/6000 43P Model 260, a high-end graphics workstation. The POWER3 was originally supposed to be called the PowerPC 630 but was renamed, probably to differentiate the server-oriented POWER processors it replaced from the more consumer-oriented 32-bit PowerPCs. The POWER3 was the successor of the P2SC derivative of the POWER2 and completed IBM's long-delayed transition from POWER to PowerPC, which was originally scheduled to conclude in 1995. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: POWER3A 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: King LearThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: POWER3: The next generation of PowerPC processorsCited 30 times
- Go sideways: POWER1A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Power Processing ElementA closely related topic
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đź“š Books worth reading
King LearWilliam Shakespeare · 1608
Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare · 1656
Radical tragedyJonathan Dollimore · 1984
Once An EagleAnton Myrer · 1968
PsychopoliticsByung-Chul Han · 2014
The courageous followerIra Chaleff · 1995
De la postcolonieAchille Mbembe · 2000
States and Power in AfricaJeffrey Herbst · 2000
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