Apple and IBM have a contract for at least 4 generations of the PowerPC processor over the next 5 years, sources tell AppleInsider. The first of these microprocessors is the current PowerPC 970, which ...

AMMC, announced the newest member of its storage processor family, the PowerPC 460SX, for high-performance storage and storage networking applications. Based on the Power Architecture standard, the ...

High-Performance CPU Core Coupled with High-Bandwidth Memory and High-Speed I/0 Subsystems Support Encryption/Decryption, Security, Gigabit Ethernet and Gen2 PCI Express SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 17, ...

Much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers. Yesterday, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. revealed details of a dual-core ...

Developers working on the OpenSolaris project have taken a step closer to bringing their Unix operating system to the PowerPC processor used by Apple Computer’s Macintosh computers. On Sunday, ...

Apple Computer's online store sold today what may have been its last single processor PowerPC-based Power Mac. After seeing ship times slip to 7 to 10 business days earlier this week, all mention of ...

Claimed as the industry’s most powerful system controller architecture for MIPS and PowerPC processor-based systems, the Discovery II family incorporates an innovative crossbar architecture, advanced ...

Engineers are said to have in the QS850EV evaluation kit all of the ingredients needed to develop embedded products based on a PowerPC processor and the Linux operating system. At the heart of the ...

IBM Corp. is preparing a 1.8GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second half ...

The conundrum chip designers perpetually face is achieving greater processing speeds, but at the same time reducing a chip’s power consumption needs. The two goals are at swords points with each other ...

While much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced Tuesday at a conference in ...

IBM in November will begin mass production of an embedded PowerPC chip, the PowerPC 405EP, designed for wireless LAN access points and other networking applications including DSL routers and cable ...