— -- 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 ...

HP, IBM, Rackable Systems and MPC last week announced upgrades of their respective servers using Intel’s newest Xeon processors. The Intel Xeon 5100 – codenamed Woodcrest – delivers as much as 125% ...

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 ...

The CPU will run at speeds between 4-5GHz with a total of 8Mbytes L2 cache and a 75Gbyte/second link to external memory. The Power6 doubles the frequency and bandwidth of the existing Power5 without ...

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 ...

IBM Corp. next week will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s (AMD) Opteron microprocessor. The new server, called the ...

Hot Chips 25 was held August 24-26 on the Stanford University campus again this year, with many exciting and interesting presentations. I’ve noticed an overall trend with more focus being placed on ...