In OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple will officially do away with software support for the PowerPC architecture. Mac users may want to look at various applications on their systems to see about removing or ...

Why did Apple drop the IBM-backed PowerPC architecture and switch to Intel in 2005? Four years to the month, one person involved in the discussions between Apple and IBM offers some insight. Brooke ...

June 6, 2005: Steve Jobs reveals that Apple will switch the Mac from PowerPC processors to Intel. Speaking at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs’ revelation reminds the tech world that he ...

The past is another country, and the old Apple of a decade and a half ago has been long replaced by the behemoth it's become. Yet, the decisions Apple made over Intel in 2005 are being repeated now — ...

The previous installment in this series took us from the rise of the PowerPC line into the line’s heyday as a leader in the RISC workstation market. During the reign of the PowerPC 600 series, Apple ...

The Design of a PowerPC system-on-a-chip processor which integrates high speed state of the art 800 MHz PowerPC IP, DDRII-667 memory controller, RAID assist logic, and three PCI-X DDR266 interfaces ...

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 ...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard was the writing on the wall for Apple to completely drop PowerPC support. Snow Leopard was the first Mac operating system to not work on PowerPC machines, yet it still ran ...

There's no Linux journal (yet) here on Ars, so y'all are stuck with me today for your Ubuntu-related news. I can hear the cheers through my computer already. No no, no need to thank me. I do it all ...

Finally, after sending signals of this move ever since Steve Jobs re-took Apple’s helm, the company last week announced that it will move to the x86 platform. While I had clearly anticipated this move ...

IBM officially unveiled the company’s new PowerPC processor at the Microprocessor Forum on Monday. While IBM would not confirm that Apple could be a customer for the new chip, analysts continue to see ...

IBM will take the wraps off a gigahertz-capable PowerPC chip on Monday at the Microprocessor Forum, one of the year's top events for the silicon set. The new PowerPC 750FX, which will come out at ...