How can a company be just about everywhere, and yet nobody knows its name? Just ask Michel Mayer, chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor. Mayer's $6 billion Austin, Texas-based company, a recent ...

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 ...

PowerFox is based on Firefox, but it works on G4 and G5-based Mac computers from the early 2000s.

It has been well over a decade since PowerPC Macs roamed the earth—so long that the Intel Macs that replaced them are themselves being replaced by something else. But to this day, there’s a small ...

IBM’s Tuesday, October 15th announcement of the PowerPC 970 was one of the most heavily anticipated processor announcements in recent memory. Mac users, would-be Mac users, Linux enthusiasts, and ...

It's not obvious which of these has the faster hardware or for which jobs each would have an advantage. The Power5+ is a screamer, but the G5's short array processor should trump it for well written ...

Apple and IBM have a contract for at least 4 generations of the PowerPC processor over the next 5 years, sources tell AppleInsider. The first of these microprocessors is the current PowerPC 970, which ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

June 6, 2005: Steve Jobs reveals that Apple will switch the Mac from PowerPC processors to Intel. Speaking at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs’ revelation reminds the tech world that he ...

The PowerPC 980 Processor is a rumored chip to be coming from IBM as a followup to the PowerPC 970. Just as the PowerPC 970 is based on the Power4 Processor, the PowerPC 980 is rumored to be based on ...