IBM has posted a presentation PDF delving into some additional details of the anxiously awaited PowerPC 970 64-bit processor that may eventually make its way into a future Macintosh model. According ...

IBM press release mentions 2.5 GHz PowerPC 970 processor An IBM press release documents the PowerPC Blade server prototype, which incorporates the PowerPC 970 processor. Of interest is that IBM says ...

From the moment IBM unveiled the Power4 a few years ago, Mac users began dreaming of a scaled-down, cheaper, Altivec-enabled version of the chip that might someday save Apple from Motorola's slow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you follow some of the 970 threads in the Mac Ach, then you know that for quite some time I've had in the works a phone interview with some of the IBM folks behind the PowerPC 970. Last week I ...

Presenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the ...

Smaller transistors and larger die sizes are radically changing the way 64-bit processors are implemented and where they're found. This holds true particularly for high-performance server and desktop ...

A memory problem has triggered a three-month delay in IBM's JS20 server, a system at the center of three major strategies in Big Blue's server group, the company confirmed Monday. The JS20, which uses ...

You can’t tell the difference between a dual-processor Power Mac G5 and the new dual CPU, dual core Power Mac G5 Quad from looking. Your software can’t tell the difference, either. But if you could ...

San Jose, Calif. — Startup PA Semi is shipping chip samples that demonstrate its claim of taking the PowerPC architecture's power consumption to new lows for a range of embedded markets. The Santa ...