PowerPC 400
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The PowerPC 400 family is a line of 32-bit embedded RISC processor cores based on the PowerPC or Power ISA instruction set architectures. The cores are designed to fit inside specialized applications
PowerPC 405GP in a Sun StorageTek SL8500
IBM STB04500 in a Dilog DT 550. A set top box powered by a 252 MHz PowerPC 405 based SoC.
A 533 MHz AMCC PowerPC 440SPe processor from a RAID card in an Apple Xserve.
PowerPC 600
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The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and staffed by engineers from IBM and Motorola as
PowerPC 400
…of the first PowerPC processors. It was the first one targeted strictly to the embedded market. Compared to the other PowerPC processors of the era (PowerPC 601, PowerPC 603 and PowerPC 604), it was at the very low end, lacking a memory management unit (MMU) or floating-point unit (FPU), for instance. The core…
The PowerPC 601 prototype reached first silicon in October 1992
PowerPC 601
PowerPC 601v, note the slightly smaller die
Die shot of a PowerPC 603