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

IBM on Tuesday sold three of its PowerPC processors as part of a licensing deal with Applied Micro Circuits, a 25-year-old networking and storage chip company. Under the agreement, IBM will transfer ...

IBM's microelectronics division plans to begin offering one of its PowerPC chips to interested third parties under a new licensing plan. IBM has been edging toward a broad licensing program for ...

IBM officially unveiled the company’s new PowerPC processor at the Microprocessor Forum on Monday. While IBM would not confirm that Apple could be a customer for the new chip, analysts continue to see ...

IBM is brewing a new, more formidable PowerPC chip for desktop computers. Big Blue plans to design the new desktop PowerPC chip using technology from its Power4 processor for servers. Though the ...

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 ...

San Jose, Calif. –Applied Micro Circuits Corp.'s (AMCC) PowerPC 440SPe processor offers three independent PCI Express interfaces and one PCI-X version 2.0 interface. The newest PowerPC chip is aimed ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—Applied Micro Circuits Corp. announced the newest member of its embedded processor family, the PowerPC 460GTx. The PowerPC 460GTx offers advanced features, including four Gigabit ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. By modern standards, the PowerPC 750 is nothing to write home about. It's a single-core processor with approximately 6 million transistors and ...

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 ...