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 ...

If you follow some of the 970 threads in the Mac Ach, then you know that for quite some time I've had in the works a phone interview with some of the IBM folks behind the PowerPC 970. Last week I ...

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 ...

IBM Corp. on Tuesday will unveil a new line of low-power blade servers based on the same 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor that Apple Computer Inc. uses in its Power Mac G5 computers. The new system, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Computer Inc., which for months has been encouraging PC users to switch to its Macintosh computers, is on the verge of some switching itself. The company, which has used ...