Sunnyvale, Calif.—Applied Micro Circuits Corp. announced the newest member of its Power Architecture family, the PowerPC 440EPr processor. The PowerPC 440EPr is aimed at cost sensitive applications, ...

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 ...

With Apple's latest operating system dropping support for the last four remaining legacy models, the Mac's Intel era has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...