The conundrum chip designers perpetually face is achieving greater processing speeds, but at the same time reducing a chip’s power consumption needs. The two goals are at swords points with each other ...

— -- IBM unveiled two new PowerPC chips at an event in Tokyo this week, one month after its primary customer for those chips announced plans to switch to Intel's processors. The new PowerPC 970MP ...

Semiconductor manufacturer IBM on Friday provided details about its manufacturing of PowerPC 970FX microprocessors. This is the same processor used in Apple’s Xserve G5, announced last month at ...

IBM has released details about two new PowerPC chips designed for entry-level servers and PCs. The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX, which is commonly found in Macintosh ...

IBM Corp. released further details Friday about the manufacturing process used to create its 90-nanometer PowerPC 970FX chip, its first chip built on the smaller process generation. The 90-nanometer ...

IBM last week unveiled details about a dual-core version of its PowerPC processor at the Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo. Big Blue is targeting entry-level servers, clustered environments and the ...

Apple Computer Inc.’s new top-end Power Mac G5 features a first for the company’s desktop line-up: liquid cooling technology. The newest Power Mac G5 is Apple’s first consumer model to use IBM Corp.’s ...

Big Blue's dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor has a number of ways to reduce its power consumption when possible. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

As part of a push to proliferate its “Power Architecture” microprocessors, IBM Corp. showed off its PowerPC 970MP, a dual-core version of an earlier design, this one aimed at applications that require ...

ripped from Think Secret<BR><BR>Although Apple has only this year begun shipping G5 Power Macs and Xserves with the PowerPC 970FX processor, IBM plans to raise the bar with the chip's successor, a ...