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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Earlier this month, a brand-new build of the long-deprecated Windows NT for PowerPC surfaced. It's now optimized for 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 ...

Apple has agreed to purchase PA Semi, the designer of a 64-bit, power-conservative, dual-core processor, Forbes reports. PA Semi's chip is based not on Intel x86 (like Macs) or ARM (like the iPhone) ...

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 ...