<Ul> <Li> POWER5--The iconic setup with four POWER5 chips and four L3 cache chips on a large multi-chip module . </Li> <Li> POWER5+--A faster POWER5 fabricated on a reduced process mainly to reduce power consumption . </Li> </Ul> <Li> POWER5--The iconic setup with four POWER5 chips and four L3 cache chips on a large multi-chip module . </Li> <Li> POWER5+--A faster POWER5 fabricated on a reduced process mainly to reduce power consumption . </Li> <P> A joint organization was founded in 2004 called Power.org with the mission to unify and coordinate future development of the PowerPC specifications . By then, the PowerPC specification was fragmented since Freescale (née Motorola) and IBM had taken different paths in their respective development of it . Freescale had prioritized 32 - bit embedded applications and IBM high - end servers and supercomputers . There was also a collection of licensees of the specification like AMCC, Synopsys, Sony, Microsoft, P.A. Semi, CRAY and Xilinx that needed coordination . The joint effort was not only to streamline development of the technology but also to streamline marketing . </P>

Ibm power microprocessor is preferred over the intel microprocessor for supercomputers