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Who made PowerPC?

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IBM used to. Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple, Inc.) used to use the PowerPC chip in its computers, but they moved to Intel with the introduction of their line of MacBooks. Please see the related link.

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Motorola made most PowerPC's, but IBM made PowerPC G5

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