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[[Microprocessor]]s belonging to the [[PowerPC]] architecture family have been used in numerous applications.
 
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==Game consoles==
 
All three major seventh-generation [[game consoles]] contain PowerPC-based processors. Sony's [[PlayStation 3]] console, released in November [[2006]], contains a [[Cell processor]], including a 3.2 GHz PowerPC control processor and eight closely threaded DSP-like accelerator processors, seven active and one spare; Microsoft's [[Xbox 360]] console, released in 2005, includes a 3.2 GHz custom IBM PowerPC chip with three symmetrical cores, each core SMP-capable at two threads, and Nintendo's [[Wii]] console, also released in November 2006, contains an extension of the PowerPC architecture found in their previous system, the [[Nintendo GameCube|GameCube]].
 
==TV Set Top Boxes/Digital Recorder==