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PowerPC 604 Microprocessor

The Power Macintosh 9500 Series computers feature the highest performance PowerPC processor available: the PowerPC 604 RISC microprocessor. Designed to bring unprecedented levels of performance to desktop computers, the Power PC 604 processor offers up to 1.5 times the performance of the PowerPC 601 processor at the same clock speed. Features include

•Full RISC processing architecture

•Parallel processing units: one load-store unit, two integer units, one complex integer unit, and one floating point unit

•Separate built-in caches for data and instructions, 16 KB each, four-way set associative

•Advanced branching techniques for improved throughput