Sunnyvale, Calif.—Applied Micro Circuits Corp. announced the newest member of its embedded processor family, the PowerPC 460GTx. The PowerPC 460GTx offers advanced features, including four Gigabit ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Apple Computer's online store sold today what may have been its last single processor PowerPC-based Power Mac. After seeing ship times slip to 7 to 10 business days earlier this week, all mention of ...

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 ...