Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside. While true ...

Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside. While true ...

SAN JOSE — During the Embedded Processor Forum here today, Motorola Inc. said its next-generation PowerPC core–the e500–will be optimized for system-on-chip designs with 800 MHz of speed and power ...

The previous installment in this series took us from the rise of the PowerPC line into the line’s heyday as a leader in the RISC workstation market. During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple ...

PowerPC gets clock boost to 1GHzNews from E-InSiteMotorola has begun shipping 800MHz and 1GHz versions of its PowerPC microprocessor, the MPC7455 and the MPC7445, manufactured using ...

Red Hat Inc. today announced an agreement with semiconductor maker Motorola Inc. which it promises will bring “a complete [Linux] toolchain” for the PowerPC instruction set architecture with full ...

About 10 months ago, IBM began to layout the foundation for a major architectural revamp to the PowerPC line that will allow chips to run much cooler for mobile and embedded applications, sources ...

AMCC and Intrinsity announced a technology agreement to jointly develop a high performance PowerPC core for integration into future AMCC products. Utilizing its Fast14 technology, Intrinsity and AMCC ...

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 opened the PowerPC instruction set architecture ' Power Architecture ' to the Linux Foundation and made it open source. “This is both good news and bad news,” says Electronic Engineering Journal, ...