The WED3C755E8M multi-chip package incorporates a PowerPC 755 RISC processor and a 1-Mbyte SSRAM L2 cache in a 21 x 25 mm HBGA255 device. It features a 350 MHz processor and 175-MHz cache speed, with ...
Much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers. Yesterday, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. revealed details of a dual-core ...
Based on the very-well-known Power Architecture, the PowerPC 405EX processor is optimized for the demanding requirements of 802.11n (Wi-Fi) and WiMAX-based wireless access points and similar embedded ...
The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...
IBM is preparing a 1.8-GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced today. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second half ...
I created some confusion in my special report on IBM's POWER5 processor. My story alluded to Windows for the POWER/PowerPC architecture, prompting many readers to send e-mail like this: I am a regular ...
Xilinx’s PowerPC and MicroBlaze Development Kit ($895) provides a quick way to get started with FPGA processor development using either the built-in PowerPC processor in the Virtex-4 FX12 found in the ...
Earlier this month, a brand-new build of the long-deprecated Windows NT for PowerPC surfaced. It's now optimized for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii families of Nintendo consoles, of all platforms, ...