Neowin News Feed for: Powerpc

Apple's first "i" product, the iMac G3, was announced 25 years ago today

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 06 May 2023 14:10:01 +0000

Apple's original iMac, powered by a G3 processor, was announced on May 6, 1998. Priced at $1,299, It was an all-in-one computer that amazed the users with its iconic translucent Bondi Blue casing. Read more...

IBM says its latest POWER10 CPUs are up to 20x faster than last generation

Sayan Sen — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:48:01 +0000

IBM outs its latest POWER10 chips designed to drive hybrid cloud computing solutions. The company promises up to 20x improvement in select workloads, while also being more efficient. Read more...

Apple engineer behind Mac switch to Intel chips was rejected for Apple Store Genius Bar job

Andy Weir — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:32:01 +0000

JK Scheinberg - the Apple engineer who led the effort to move Mac OS to Intel PCs - applied for a job as an Apple Store Genius, after he retired from the company... but he never got the job. Read more...

Rumor: Next Xbox processor in production?

John Callaham — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:38:59 +0000

A new rumor claims that production has begun on the CPU-GPU processor for Microsoft's next version of its Xbox game console. The chips are being made for game developer kits for the console. Read more...

More rumors on Wii U's hardware specs hit the Internet

John Callaham — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:26:45 +0000

A web site claims to have more information on what kind of hardware is inside Nintendo's upcoming Wii U game console which is scheduled to launch sometime in 2012. Read more...

Rosetta, we hardly knew ye: OS X Lion cuts support for PowerPC apps

Matthew Jones — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:34:32 +0000

It will hardly come as a surprise to many, but it appears Apple is finally calling time on PowerPC apps with OS X Lion. 9to5mac reports that Rosetta, the compatibility layer that allowed applications compiled for... Read more...

Aperture 1.1 Ships for both Intel and PowerPC Macs

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:43:24 +0000

Today, Apple finally released the Universal Binary version of Aperture bringing the professional photo editing software native to Apple's newer Intel based machines. The new release is an actual update from the previous original... Read more...

Apple Says Farewell to the 17-inch PowerPC iMac G5

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:35:58 +0000

As expected, Apple's online store as of Friday no longer lists the 17-inch 1.9GHz iMac G5 for sale. Last week it was reported that Apple had officially discontinued the model in the United States and... Read more...

IBM Unveils Dual-Core PowerPC Chips up to 2.5GHz

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:56:53 +0000

Presenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the coming months.... Read more...

PowerPC Teeters on Edge of Uncertainty

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:56:09 +0000

With Apple and IBM going their separate ways, the PowerPC has questionable future development. It's the end of the PowerPC as we know it. But most everyone feels fine. Just one day... Read more...

IBM launches PowerPC consortium

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:28:58 +0000

IBM has formed an industry consortium chartered with opening up the process of building Power processors, as used in Macs. It's a move to open up its Power microprocessor architecture. The consortium is called Power.org.... Read more...

PowerPC Notes: Forthcoming single-core 970GX, low-power G5

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:13:10 +0000

Since Think Secrets July report on Antares, the forthcoming dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor, sources have provided Think Secret with additional notes regarding IBM's PowerPC development and the direction it might take Apple. The biggest news... Read more...

Freescale to detail dual-core PowerPC G4

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:10:25 +0000

As we all know Apple dropped support for Motorola's desktop processors, and chose to use IBM's processors for its next generation desktop PCs. This action was viewed by some analyst as a final blow... Read more...

Take an early look at 64-bit Linux on a PowerPC 970 platform

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:41:55 +0000

The IBM PowerPC® 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop... Read more...

PowerPC 970MP to pack dual cores for future Apple hardware

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:27:54 +0000

IBM is wasting no time to be the first to offer dual-core processors. Already we know that Intel and AMD have plans to come out with their own dual-core processors though theirs production dates... Read more...

PearPC - PowerPC Emulator Author Dies

Tom Warren — Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:42:57 +0000

On a blog for the popular Mac emulation software (PearPC) co-author Sebastian Biallas has written of Stefan Weyergraf's death late yesterday evening. A tragic end to a young developer who proved that Mac emulation software... Read more...

IBM: PowerPC G5 to Go Mobile

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:41:14 +0000

With AMD and Intel fighting over the spot light for the best mobile processor one competitor is left out. That competitor is IBM, is IBM developing a mobile version of its PowerPC processor? ... Read more...

3GHz PowerPC G5 Eludes IBM

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:37:32 +0000

Around this time last year Steve Jobs said that there will be a 3Ghz PowerPC in twelve months. Twelve months later IBM's PowerPC is only up to 2.5Ghz. Though this isn't the speed... Read more...

IBM sells off low-end PowerPC chips

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:27:18 +0000

IBM last night sold two of its PowerPC processor lines and a licence for the PowerPC instruction set to Applied Micro Circuits for $227m in cash and a renewed foundry commitment. The deal, announced last... Read more...

Will Apple bite on Motorola's PowerPC chip?

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 05:06:47 +0000

Motorola on Monday announced a faster PowerPC chip that could be used in speedier Apple Computer laptops. Motorola said it is now producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip analysts... Read more...

Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available

Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:28:14 +0000

Thanks Emon We're proud to announce the availability of the Gentoo for PowerPC G5 32-bit LiveCD. The LiveCD has been tested on a dual 2GHz G5 SMP... Read more...

Motorola adds dual-core G4 to PowerPC roadmap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:56:52 +0000

Motorola is preparing a next-generation two-core G4-class PowerPC processor, the company will this week tell attendees of its annual Smart Networks Developer Conference, held in Disneyland Paris. The chip, as yet unnamed - at least... Read more...

IBM preps 1GHz-plus PowerPC 750GX 'Gobi'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 May 2003 20:36:05 +0000

Further details have emerged about IBM's next revision of its G3-class processor family, codenamed Gobi, but set to ship as the PowerPC 750GX. It will finally take the G3 family to 1GHz and beyond. ... Read more...

PowerPC G5 enters 'volume production'

Steven Parker — Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:18:07 +0000

When is someone gonna port macosX to the Wintel? c'mon not a crappy system7, 8 or 9 emu, give me the works! - ED Ripped from The Reg in true unprofessional fashion,... Read more...