PowerPC 604
E251993
PowerPC 604 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor from IBM and Motorola’s PowerPC family, widely used in mid-1990s Apple Power Macintosh systems for its strong integer and floating-point performance.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PowerPC 604 canonical | 11 |
| PowerPC 604e | 9 |
| PowerPC 600 series | 4 |
| PowerPC 604ev | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2073161 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PowerPC 604 Context triple: [Power Macintosh series, cpuFamily, PowerPC 604]
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A.
PowerPC 603
PowerPC 603 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor from IBM and Motorola’s PowerPC family, designed as a low-power, cost-effective CPU widely used in mid-1990s Apple Macintosh computers and embedded systems.
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B.
PowerPC 601
PowerPC 601 is the first-generation PowerPC microprocessor developed jointly by IBM and Motorola, used in early Power Macintosh computers and known for introducing the PowerPC RISC architecture to mainstream personal computing.
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C.
PowerPC G3
PowerPC G3 is a third-generation PowerPC microprocessor line from IBM and Motorola, widely used in late-1990s Apple Macintosh computers for its strong performance and efficiency.
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D.
PowerPC G4
The PowerPC G4 is a line of 32-bit RISC microprocessors developed by Motorola/IBM for Apple computers, known for its AltiVec vector processing capabilities and use in Macs around the early 2000s.
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E.
PowerPC
PowerPC is a RISC-based microprocessor architecture developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance (Apple, IBM, and Motorola) and used in a wide range of computers, embedded systems, and game consoles.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PowerPC 604 Target entity description: PowerPC 604 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor from IBM and Motorola’s PowerPC family, widely used in mid-1990s Apple Power Macintosh systems for its strong integer and floating-point performance.
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A.
PowerPC 603
PowerPC 603 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor from IBM and Motorola’s PowerPC family, designed as a low-power, cost-effective CPU widely used in mid-1990s Apple Macintosh computers and embedded systems.
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B.
PowerPC 601
PowerPC 601 is the first-generation PowerPC microprocessor developed jointly by IBM and Motorola, used in early Power Macintosh computers and known for introducing the PowerPC RISC architecture to mainstream personal computing.
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C.
PowerPC G3
PowerPC G3 is a third-generation PowerPC microprocessor line from IBM and Motorola, widely used in late-1990s Apple Macintosh computers for its strong performance and efficiency.
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D.
PowerPC G4
The PowerPC G4 is a line of 32-bit RISC microprocessors developed by Motorola/IBM for Apple computers, known for its AltiVec vector processing capabilities and use in Macs around the early 2000s.
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E.
PowerPC
PowerPC is a RISC-based microprocessor architecture developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance (Apple, IBM, and Motorola) and used in a wide range of computers, embedded systems, and game consoles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
PowerPC microprocessor
ⓘ
RISC microprocessor ⓘ microprocessor ⓘ |
| addressBusWidth | 32-bit ⓘ |
| architectureFamily | PowerPC ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 32-bit ⓘ |
| cacheType | separate instruction and data caches ⓘ |
| category |
IBM microprocessors
ⓘ
Motorola microprocessors ⓘ PowerPC 600 series ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPC 604
|
| compatibleWith | PowerPC 32-bit software ⓘ |
| dataBusWidth | 64-bit ⓘ |
| designers |
Apple Computer
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
IBM ⓘ Motorola ⓘ |
| designGoal | high performance general-purpose computing ⓘ |
| endianSupport | big-endian ⓘ |
| executionUnits |
branch unit
ⓘ
floating-point unit ⓘ integer units ⓘ load-store units ⓘ |
| family |
PowerPC 600 series
ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPC 604
|
| instructionSetArchitecture |
PowerPC ISA
ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPC
|
| introducedInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
strong floating-point performance
ⓘ
strong integer performance ⓘ |
| L1Cache |
data cache
ⓘ
instruction cache ⓘ |
| microarchitectureType | superscalar ⓘ |
| notableUse |
Apple Power Macintosh systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Power Macintosh
|
| notableUsePeriod | mid-1990s ⓘ |
| pipelineType | deep pipeline ⓘ |
| predecessor | PowerPC 601 ⓘ |
| successor |
PowerPC 604e
ⓘ
linked to:
PowerPC 604
|
| supports |
32-bit virtual addressing
ⓘ
IEEE 754 floating-point ⓘ
linked to:
IEEE 754 floating‑point arithmetic standard
hardware branch prediction ⓘ out-of-order execution (limited) ⓘ superscalar issue ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
desktop computers
ⓘ
workstations ⓘ |
| technologyType | CMOS ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Apple Computer
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Inc.
IBM ⓘ other PowerPC system vendors ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Apple Power Macintosh 7600
ⓘ
Apple Power Macintosh 8500 ⓘ Apple Power Macintosh 9500 ⓘ
linked to:
Power Macintosh 9500
|
| wordSize | 32 bits ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: PowerPC 604 Description of subject: PowerPC 604 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor from IBM and Motorola’s PowerPC family, widely used in mid-1990s Apple Power Macintosh systems for its strong integer and floating-point performance.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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