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The '''Mac transition to PowerPC processors''' was athe majorprocess shiftof inswitching the [[central processing unit]]s (CPUs) of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[Macintosh]] line,inof which theMacintosh companycomputers replacedfrom the [[Motorola 68000 series]] (68k) [[Complex instruction set computer|CISC]] processors withto [[PowerPC]] [[Reduced instruction set computer|RISC]] processors co-developed with [[IBM]] and [[Motorola]] (the [[AIM alliance]]). The transition began in March 1994 with the launch of the [[Power Macintosh]] series and was largely completed by mid-1996, though Apple continued supporting 68k systems in its software until 1998.
