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| | POWER to the People: A History of Chipmaking at IBM |
 | | IBM's four families of processorsthe POWER architecture, the PowerPC family of processors, the Star chips, and even the line of chips that power IBM mainframesall have a common ancestor: the IBM 801. |
 | | IBM Microelectronics also offers Evaluation kits for PowerPC cores, which come with schematics, source code, design details, and a comprehensive selection of tools to enable development of PowerPC-based applications. |
 | | IBM Journal of Research and Development Volume 34, Issue 1 is devoted to the original POWER architecture, often referred to in those days also as "the RS/6000 processor" because it powered RS/6000 machines. |
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