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The Rise to Power
Jason Walsh provides an in-depth look at the transition of the Power and PowerPC family in the wake of Apple's announced switch to Intel. This article features an exlusive interview with Terra Soft's co-founder and CEO Kai Staats, Genesi's founders Bill Buck and Raquel Velasco, and IBM's VP of Technology Marketing and Chairman of Power.org. This article showcases Terra Soft's strategic role in the reformation of a global, computing cornerstone.

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Power to the People
Jon Masters takes us under the hood and into the CPU and kernel as he explores the current state of Power/PowerPC systems with a look to the year 2007 when Apple will no longer ship PowerPC-based systems, "Apple may be dumping PowerPC, but it won't slow down its progress as an appealing platform for a whole generation of Linux on POWER developers ..."

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PowerPC - a potted history
"Apple may have lost interest in the CPU which they helped develop, but it's far from dead -- and the history of the chip's development holds the key as to why," Jason Walsh retells the story of the history of the world's most widely-used RISC CPU.

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