PowerPowerPC
POWERPowerPC is a hypothetical CPU architecture that envisions merging the IBM POWER and PowerPC instruction ecosystems into a single design. The term is used in speculative discussions and academic exercises about instruction-set interoperability and hardware compatibility. It is not an official IBM product or a standard.
Concept and goals: The project would aim to combine rigorous RISC design, high-performance out-of-order execution, and
Instruction-set characteristics: The design would likely retain POWER-style condition registers and register windows from some POWER
Status and reception: No hardware implementation or official roadmap exists in IBM or major vendors. The concept
See also: IBM POWER, PowerPC, AltiVec, VMX, VSX, binary translation.