   Logos of Apple, IBM, and Motorola around the time of the alliance's formation | |
| Company type | Joint venture |
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| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | October 2, 1991 |
| Defunct | c. 2006 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Owner | Apple Inc., IBM, Motorola |
| POWER, PowerPC, and Power ISA architectures |
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| NXP (formerly Freescale and Motorola) |
| IBM |
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| IBM/Nintendo |
| Other |
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| Cancelled in gray, historic in italic |
The AIM alliance, also known as the PowerPC alliance, was formed on October 2, 1991, between Apple, IBM, and Motorola. Its goal was to create an industry-wide open-standard computing platform based on the POWER instruction set architecture.[1][2]: 69 It was intended to solve legacy problems, future-proof the industry, and compete with Microsoft's monopoly and the Wintel duopoly. The alliance yielded the launch of Taligent, Kaleida Labs, the PowerPC CPU family, the Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) hardware platform standard, and Apple's Power Macintosh computer line.
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