Apparently the P.A. Semi acquisition was covered by a number of keynotes at the Critical Embedded Systems Conference,

On the heels of Apple's acquisition of P.A. Semi, and the uncertain future for that company's PA6T Power Architecture processors, both Debian and MontaVista have announced support for those same processors.

Xilinx has released Virtex-5, an FPGA attached to 1-2 550MHz PowerPC 440 cores.
Previous Xilinx FPGA products used only 405 cores, so this apparently is a very

AMCC has released "Arches," a dual-processor reference board for the PowerPC 460GT processor. The 460GT is software-compatible with 440.

Apple has confused the industry by acquiring P.A. Semi, makers of high-performance low-power single- and dual-core PowerPC SoCs.

Ubuntu's new version 8.0.4, Hardy Heron has finalized its testing period and is now available for download (though the server might be a little slow at the moment). The good about is: The PPC version is a 100% on time.

Earlier today Engadget, MacRumors and Forbes report that Apple is about to acquire P.A.Semi.

CODEX, the consulting company behind libfreevec, has released version 1.03.

Yesterday IBM announced three new Power6 server series: the Power 595, the Power 575 and the Power 570.

IBM's Linux Technology Center (LTC), known to contribute quite a bit of code (see LWN.net article or recent Linux Foundation article) and employ a number of prominent people in the Linux / OSS community has put together a blog roll that at any given time covers a number of interesting topics related to LinuxPPC. Makes for interesting reading of how-tos, findings and opinion.

Planet-LTC