IBM Corp. today inked a deal with Marvell Technology Group Ltd. that will see its PowerPC 970 processors integrated into next-generation networking, storage and server systems from Marvell. “Behind ...

To address demand for process-portable versions of IBM's Power Architecture cores for communications, consumer and automotive apps, Synopsys, Inc. has released fully synthesizable versions of the ...

Several more readers have reported issues apparently caused by using the System Migration function to move from a PowerPC-based Mac OS X system to an Intel-based Mac OS X system. One reader reports ...

With Apple’s transition away from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors, we haven’t heard as much from Terra Soft Solutions — makers of Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC-based computers. On Thursday the company ...

EMC Corp. on Tuesday announced that EMC Retrospect 8.1 is now available through its distribution channels. The new release of the venerable Mac backup and archival software application adds back ...

Claimed as the industry’s most powerful system controller architecture for MIPS and PowerPC processor-based systems, the Discovery II family incorporates an innovative crossbar architecture, advanced ...

We previously reported on some issues related to boot drives for Intel-based Mac systems in relation to starting up from FireWire drives. Our previous report indicated that a volume with the Intel ...

Every once in a while there’s a tech announcement that makes me do a double-take. Today’s catastrophic announcement with Nokia and Microsoft? Nah. Fedora on IBM System z, now there’s a puzzler. The ...

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, ...

Documentation included with copies of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard distributed during Apple's developer conference this week confirm that the next-generation operating system does not presently support ...

Oh lordy.<P>I've just bought another interesting/unusual *nix computer. I didn't have any RS6000/AIX machines so I weakened and purchased a most unusual computer at a local computer swapmeet. An IBM ...