— -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Should a dual-core processor count as one chip or two? IBM Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) provided two very different answers to that question Thursday as the two companies unveiled ...

Big Blue will use AMD's chip in a high-performance server but isn't yet planning a general-purpose Opteron system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

The company is also preparing to introduce its new POWER 6 processor. IBM unveiled a nine-core IBM Cell blade, a dual-core POWER processor-based BladeCenterJS21 and an ultra low-power Intel-based ...

Under a new plan called "processor value unit licensing," users of IBM's middleware products will pay a license fee based on a value that IBM assigns to the processors on which the software is run.

Power6's Live Partition Mobility makes it possible to move a Unix-based computer workload from one server to another while it is running IBM is introducing a new feature of its recently released ...