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FuriouslyAdrift01/21/20251 replyview on HN

I remember the Exponential Technologies bipolar PowerPC chip running at 533 MHz back in 1997... so sad Apple killed it

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kens01/21/2025

That's an interesting chip. You don't see many bipolar processors. (The Pentium has a few bipolar transistors sprinkled around, but it's mostly CMOS.)

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