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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on the very-well-known Power Architecture, the PowerPC 405EX processor is optimized for the demanding requirements of 802.11n (Wi-Fi) and WiMAX-based wireless access points and similar embedded ...

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, ...

For the last few years Motorola has been the sole supplier of Apple's high-end chips, all from the G4 family. And for the last few years, Mac fans and industry pundits alike have expressed grief over ...

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 ...

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 ...