I created some confusion in my special report on IBM's POWER5 processor. My story alluded to Windows for the POWER/PowerPC architecture, prompting many readers to send e-mail like this: I am a regular ...

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...

iPalindrome has talked me into doing for the PowerPC chips what I did for the Pentium recently. To limit the size of the project, I'm only going to cover chips that were used in actual Apple desktops.

Employing a 32-bit MPC555 PowerPC processor, the PPC/104-555 module targets control-intensive applications where the timing and control of moving parts is critical. The PC/104 module operates at ...