Editing PowerPC G4 (section)

== e600 ==
{{Main|PowerPC e600}}

In 2004, Freescale renamed the G4 core to '''e600''' and changed its focus from general CPUs to high-end embedded [[system-on-a-chip|SoC]] devices, and introduced a new naming scheme, MPC86xx. The 7448 was to be the last pure G4 and it formed the base of the new e600 core with a seven-stage, three-issue pipeline, and a powerful [[branch predictor|branch prediction unit]] which handles up to sixteen instructions out-of-order. It has an enhanced AltiVec unit capable of limited [[out-of-order execution]] and a 1&nbsp;MB L2 cache.