Thales Computers has announced a 1 GHz version of its PowerEngine7 series of single-board computers (SBCs). The new board utilizes the latest IBM PowerPC 750GX processor, delivering the optimum ...

Board vendor Force Computers announces its PowerCore CPCI-690+, a PowerPC 750GX-based single board computer (SBC). The new SBC has a core frequency of 1-GHz, and packs a Mbyte's worth of Level 2 cache ...

When NASA's Perseverance guided itself to the surface of Mars on February 18th, it did so with the help of the same processor that powered the 1998 iMac G3. You know, the colorful and bulbous ...

Apple has released a minor update to GarageBand '09 (version 5.0.1), which addresses problems users were having with the "Learn to Play" features. The description for the update reads as follows: ...

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 ...

Rogue Amoeba on Monday released an update for its streaming audio application, Airfoil. According to the company, Airfoil 3.2.6 corrects an issue with receiving audio on PowerPC machines. Other minor ...

Developers working on the OpenSolaris project have taken a step closer to bringing their Unix operating system to the PowerPC processor used by Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh computers. On Sunday, ...

The Freescale MPC5121e SOC is going to be in handheld computers in the middle of 2008. It looks like an interesting chip. It has an e300 core (PowerPC 603e) with an onboard memory controller, graphics ...

NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has already landed on the Red Planet's surface and has been spending its early days to examine and collect samples to learn more and discover if there is water there.

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 ...

Noting that Snow Leopard will support Intel Macs only—leaving out PowerPC computers built just over three years ago—PC World got curious about how their old hardware might stand up to Windows 7. To ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which recently made history landing on the surface of Mars, is powered by the same processor used in an iMac more than 23 years old. Image Credit: NASA As reported by ...