 IBM PowerPC 601 used in early Power Macintosh models (1994) | |
| Date | 1994–1996 |
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| Participants | Apple Inc., IBM, Motorola (AIM alliance) |
| Outcome | All Macintosh models migrated to PowerPC CPUs |
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| macOS |
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The Mac transition to PowerPC processors was a major shift in Apple Inc.'s Macintosh line, in which the company replaced the Motorola 68000 series (68k) CISC processors with PowerPC RISC processors co-developed with IBM and Motorola (the AIM alliance). The transition began in March 1994 with the launch of the Power Macintosh series and was largely completed by mid-1996, though Apple continued supporting 68k systems in its software until 1998.