Items tagged with PowerPC

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Aug 14, 2018

Amiga Enthusiast Gets Quake Running On Killer NIC PowerPC CPU Core

The Amiga community remains one of the most passionate and inventive we have ever seen, even now, decades after Commodore’s demise. A couple of weeks back, we featured just a few recent projects that were designed to breathe new life into aging Amiga systems, or at the very least ensure they remain repairable for the... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Sat, May 27, 2017

Retro Revival: A-EON Resurrects The Amiga With The AmigaOne X5000 And They Aren't The Only Ones

Even after more than two decades since the company’s demise, the Commodore Amiga still has loyal fans that refuse to let the innovative platform die. Proof of the Amiga’s cult-like following is evident all over the web, but a review of the A-EON AmigaOne X5000 that just hit over at ArsTechnica has reignited the... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, May 07, 2013

New Star Wars Games, Battlefield Titles Won't Come To Wii U

One of the apparent casualties of Disney's decision to hand EA the reins of Star Wars development is the Wii U. DICE is one of the studios that EA confirmed would be working on Star Wars property, alongside Bioware and Visceral. The Battlefield developer has previously stated that the next generation of the Frostbite engine wouldn't run on... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Fri, Oct 21, 2011

Jobs Felt Personally Betrayed By Android, HTC

Apple's lawsuits against Samsung and HTC have drawn commentary that the company might be attempting to litigate its competitors out of the market rather than relying on the free market to decide who had superior products. The new, authorized Steve Jobs biography, however, paints the company's legal actions in a different light. Jobs is famous... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Sep 16, 2009

IBM Announces New SoC Products, Claims Performance Breakthrough

IBM announced its new 476FP system-on-chip (SoC) processor today, and claims the new design will offer more than twice the processing power of its predecessor (in theory). The company is presumably referring to the PPC 464FP-HP90; the 476FP improves on the older design in several notable ways. According to IBM, the... Read more...

by Sean Pelletier - Mon, Jan 30, 2006

Next-Gen PowerPC

TechWorld has just posted an interview with IBM's Chief Scientist and PowerPC inventor Frank Soltis. Amongst the field of solid questions, there were a few which drove towards understanding what direction IBM would be taking for the next generation PowerPC CPU. As you might have guessed, the next PowerPC will have more in common with the CELL... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Jun 07, 2005

Mourning the PowerPC, Modern CPUs, Gigabyte's Silent Pipe & More

Good morning folks. There's lots of news flowing in today, some of it due in part to yesterday's announcement that Apple will be using Intel processors in the not so distant future. There's also a full compliment of hardware news in the HH in-box, so we've got plenty of good stuff to keep you busy this morning... Read more...