Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside. While true ...

IBM’s Power processor architecture is probably best known today as those humongous chips that power everything from massive mainframes and supercomputers to slightly less massive mainframes and ...

The previous installment in this series took us from the rise of the PowerPC line into the line’s heyday as a leader in the RISC workstation market. During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple ...

Metrowerks recent release of a full line of commercial”grade development suites demonstrates dedication to advancing Linux in the automotive space. The offerings speed and simplify the creation of ...

The company's latest RTL and ISA FastCore embedded processor cores reportedly yield two to four times the performance of ARM, MIPS, and PowerPC cores implemented in standard synthesized static logic.

Sony, IBM, and Toshiba are set to fully unveil the details of the Cell processor at the upcoming International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in early February. A few working papers submitted ...