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
The PowerPC 601 prototype reached first silicon in October 1992.
An IBM manufactured 90 MHz PowerPC 601v. Notice the slightly smaller die.
A 100 MHz Motorola PowerPC 603 in a wire bond Quad Flat Package
PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various processor models from Freescale, a former p
An 800 MHz (Fast) Motorola PowerPC 7450 on a Power Mac G4 CPU module
A 1.25 GHz (Even faster) Sample 7445 EVT prototype on an iMac G4 DVT model