[al_borland]

When Apple was moving away from it, it seemed due to thermals. People wanted thinner and lighter laptops with longer lasting batteries, and the PPC chips were getting too hot to put into laptops.

I would imagine this would extend to the data center in the form of power consumption. More power to run and more power needed to keep it cool. But this is all theory. I haven’t followed the development of PPC. My last knowledge of it is from Apple and Xbox.

[DaoVeles]

Funnily enough I mentioned this on here a few days ago. Steve Jobs when announcing the G5 said they would have a 3Ghz model available in 12 months, and a G5 laptop. It never happened. Was a big reason in why they moved to Intel. I had a dual 2Ghz G5 Powermac, I used to call it 'Steve's folly' because when you had it going at full speed, you knew it by the excessive fan noise. They just ran too hot. When the Intel Mac mini release and it ran faster than the G5 using only about 1/10th the power, we knew it was done.

PA Semi developed their PWRffcient PPC chips to be pitched to Apple. They solved all the issues of thermals and performance ceilings but by that time it was too late as the Intel transition was in action. Apple purchased PA Semi and they now do all the Apple silicon stuff. Thus I say PWRffcient was the best job application you have ever seen.