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| | Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present |
 | | To fill a gap in Motorola's product line, in the low cost/power consumption field which the PowerPC's complexity makes it impractical, the company designed a load/store CPU and core which contains features similar to the ARM, PowerPC, and Hitachi SH. |
 | | IBM, Motorola, and Apple formed a coalition (around 1992) to produce a microprocessor version of the POWER design as a successor to both the Motorola 68000 and Intel 80x86, resulting in the PowerPC. |
 | | In addition, IBM and Motorola have designed simplified embedded versions, such as the IBM 40x series, and Motorola's 8xx versions, though complexity limits how small the designs can be - for the lower end, Motorola designed the ARM-like MCore low cost/power RISC CPU, while IBM simply licensed the ARM itself. |
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