— -- 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 ...

Under a new plan called "processor value unit licensing," users of IBM's middleware products will pay a license fee based on a value that IBM assigns to the processors on which the software is run.

SAN FRANCISCO IBM Corp. rolled out its most powerful mainframe computer to date here Tuesday (May 6). The zSeries 990 is based on the first dual-core version of IBM's proprietary CMOS mainframe ...

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 ...

Big Blue will use AMD's chip in a high-performance server but isn't yet planning a general-purpose Opteron system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

IBM last week unveiled details about a dual-core version of its PowerPC processor at the Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo. Big Blue is targeting entry-level servers, clustered environments and the ...

The new servers will use the IBM's existing Power5 as well as the Power5+, a new processor that combines two dual-core Power5s and their cache together in one module. IBM was able to combine the ...

IBM readies dual-core PowerPC processors IBM's Microprocessor division is readying a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 processor (G5). According eWeek, the new chip, code-named Antares, will make ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. are poised to launch new servers based on Intel Corp.’s latest dual-core Xeon processors. The servers will use Intel’s new “Bensley” server platform, which supports ...