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 ...

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 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 ...

There have been a few recent PowerPC announcements that have caused the Mac Faithful to wonder anew about The Switch and the “real” reasons behind it. First, there was the 970FX announcement, which ...

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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 U.K.’s LDRA has updated its tool suite for the PowerPC assembler language to support all 32- and 64-bit PowerPC chips, the company said. Customers can now move to the latest versions of PowerPC ...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was the writing on the wall for Apple to completely drop PowerPC support. Snow Leopard was the first Mac operating system to not work on PowerPC machines, yet it still ran ...

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 ...