The PowerPC 970 brings a Single Instruction Multiple Data processing unit to IBM’s side of the PowerPC house. Motorola first added this feature, called AltiVec to the G4.

The PowerPC 970 has other potential customers as well, though, not the least of which is IBM itself who, with its large investments in Linux, would love to see a high-performance, 970-based 4-way ...

What I offer you today is the first part of a two-part series on the PowerPC 970, IBM's first entry into a market that doesn't yet exist: the 64-bit desktop market.

According to the PDF, a single PowerPC 970 running at 1.8 GHz delivers a lower score (based on preliminary estimates) than Apple's current Power Macintosh G4 with dual 1 GHz processors.

IBM’s PowerPC Blade — based on the PowerPC 970 processor — will offer speeds of 1.8GHz to 2.5GHz, according to IBM — previous announcements had the high-end at 1.8GHz. The IBM eServer ...

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 ...

IBM press release mentions 2.5 GHz PowerPC 970 processor An IBM press release documents the PowerPC Blade server prototype, which incorporates the PowerPC 970 processor. Of interest is that IBM ...

With all this Intel stuff, I’m surprised IBM is still even TALKING to Apple, but whatever. That boy is just asking to get his heart broke. Apple is like SO over IBM and he comes out with some ...

PowerPC 970-based machines can run Linux and IBM's version of Unix, called AIX, but the Power6 blades also will run IBM's i5/OS, the operating system used on its System i server family, Dougherty ...

IBM did not explain the meaning of the term 'elastic interface' but said that its PowerPC 970, a 64-bit version of its PowerPC architecture, could have a clock frequency of up to 2-GHz. The Discovery ...

Jon Stokes has busted out another excellent PYAITK article on IBM’s upcoming PowerPC 970 processor. The article is actually the sequel to an earlier article on the processor. In typical Ars ...

IBM Corp. is preparing a 1.8GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second ...