IBM will manufacture the PowerPC 970 in its newest chip plant, located in East Fishkill, N.Y., using its 130-nanometer (0.13 micron) silicon-on-insulator process.

Intel has just shaken up their server lineup for 2007. PA Semi is set for a major performance/watt breakthrough in 2007 with a dual-core, 64-bit, Altivec-enabled processor that looks perfect for ...

The P501 spin has an IBM 440GP processor aboard, and the higher performance P502 Spider is based on the 800-MHz IBM PowerPC 440GX . For its part, the P501 module, with its dual 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet ...

Nintendo uses a custom PowerPC processor in its Game Cube system, for example. And Apple Computer uses the PowerPC 970 in a number of Macintosh desktops and its Xserve server.

IBM announced the PowerPC 970MP on Thursday at its Power Everywhere show in Tokyo. The new chip is aimed at entry-level servers, clustered environments and the embedded market. It is a dual-core ...

IBM Corp. Tuesday said the firm for the first time will use its 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor in a new blade server. The PowerPC 970 is derived from the Power4 processor family currently used in the ...

64 Bit PowerPC Speculation eWeek is reporting that, according to sources, collaboration between Apple and IBM on the new 64 Bit PowerPC processor is all but confirmed.

Big Blue plans to design the new desktop PowerPC chip using technology from its Power4 processor for servers. Though the server chip has a different name and a different design, Power4 is ...

IBM is preparing a 1.8-GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced today. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second ...