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 ...

We've received a number of notes from flat-panel iMac owners inquiring about the possibility of processor upgrades for their systems. We asked our friends at both PowerLogix and Sonnet Technologies, ...

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 ...

The folks at Express Logic, supplier of royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and Avnet Electronics Marketingsay that the ThreadX RTOS now supports the PowerPC 440 processor embedded in ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, I became interested in this when it was revealed that the cores in the Wii U are extremely similar to PPC750s, which makes sense given the GC and Wii also used that processor. The difference in ...

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 ...

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 ...