International Business Machines Corp. and Motorola Inc. said they developed the first 64-bit version of the PowerPC chip, called the PowerPC 620, which is about twice as fast as the previous 32 ...

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IBM has resurrected its 64-bit 620 PowerPC chip, after overcoming the technical problems which have dogged its development. The chip is needed to give its Unix installed base a 64-bit capability.

PowerPC 750 summary table. Introduction date: November 10, 1997 Process: 0.25 micron Transistor Count: 6.35 million Die size: 167mm 2 Clock speed at introduction: 233-266MHz Cache sizes: 64KB ...

Why did Apple drop the IBM-backed PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel in 2005? Four years to the month, one person involved in the discussions between Apple and IBM offers some insight.

In OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple will officially do away with software support for the PowerPC architecture. Mac users may want to look at various applications on their systems to see about removing or ...

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

The PowerPC 405LP, for example, is the heart of a new hardware development kit for Linux PDAs. Though IBM is also "open to licensing across our road map, the 400-series is the one we think makes ...

Retrospect, which underwent a significant user interface rework in version 8, debuted initially without any support for PowerPC-based Macs. But such systems still make up approximately 50 percent ...

Hopefully, that gives PowerPC-based laptop owners some frame of reference when it comes to gauging how much of an improvement a Core 2 Duo-based portable offers.

IBM: IntelliStation® POWER 285 (9111-290W) Apple Power G5 Quad : $16,103.00 : $4,399.00 : 2 POWER5+ /1.90GHz dual core 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache 4GB RAM 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM ...

Back in 2020, we reported on the effort to create a brand new open-source laptop platform using the PowerPC architecture. At the time they had big plans and a PCB design, and we’re very pleas… ...