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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The WED3C755E8M multi-chip package incorporates a PowerPC 755 RISC processor and a 1-Mbyte SSRAM L2 cache in a 21 x 25 mm HBGA255 device. It features a 350 MHz processor and 175-MHz cache speed, with ...

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 ...

During the last recession, few suffered as much as Motorola. After layoffs and other painful cuts, many expected the company to sell or shut down its semiconductor business. But Motorola chose a ...

The release of macOS 27 later this fall won’t quite close the book on the Intel Mac. The last handful of models that could run macOS 26 Tahoe will be eligible for security and Safari updates for two ...

The V4G4b Computing Node, a Quad PowerPC VME board, uses Motorola's PowerPC 7410 chip with an AltiVec vector processing unit. This combination expands the capabilities of the PowerPC microprocessors ...

The book "The Race for a New Game Machine", tells the story behind the creation of the PS3 and Xbox 360 CPUs, from the perspective of IBM's engineering team. According to the book, the base work for ...