PowerPC

Freescale MPC8641 is used in the Kurobox. This is the specs: http://uat.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8241&nodeId=018rH3bTdG3683
PowerPC programming:
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/chapt4.html
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/chapt8.html
Streaming:
http://www.embedded-kernel-track.org/2005/Barco-paper-Fosdem2005.pdf

MPC8241/603e core: http://www.freescale.com/files/sndf/doc/reports_presentations/SNDF2003_DALLAS_Q1239.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8241&nodeId=018rH3bTdG8655
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/avec_prog.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-unrollav1/
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~hobold/AltiVec.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-unrollav2/index.html?ca=dgr-mw01Altivec2
http://findsabrina.org/altivec/
http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/AltiVecVsMMX.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/04/05/altivec.html
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=018rH3bTdGmKqW5Nf2
http://www.simdtech.org/altivec
http://daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/altivecfractalcarbon.html
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/download_summary.html
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/
Sony's Cell chip is PowerPC based: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050407/103542/
IBM's PowerPC Open Platform reference design: http://www.openppc.org/pop/download.phtml