I keep reading here and elsewhere about how a 64 bit processor doesn't offer any inherently better performance over a 32 bit one, and that makes sense to me. Except for the case of 64 bit floating ...

A friend came by the other day. He is planning to buy a new laptop and he wanted my advice. He’s an avid gamer and wants to get the fastest machine he can afford. He travels several months out of the ...

The new server CPU, code-named Montecito, will be platform and software-compatible with current 64-bit chips, said Michael Fister, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platforms ...

The 64-bit Opteron CPU line from Advanced Micro Devices is growing quickly, even as a host of chips rolls off the fab lines. In the lead are four- and eight-way chips for the high-end and low-power ...

This embargoed (yet posted) Reuter's report indicates that IBM will announce a 1.8 GHz 64-bit CPU at the Microprocessor Forum this week, and industry insiders are saying that this is the CPU Apple ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Answering the competitive threat from Advanced Micro Devices, Intel Corp. officially rolls out Monday (June 28) its first X86 processor capable of handling 64-bit data. Aimed at ...

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 half ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — A handful of prominent vendors are about to heave 64-bit microprocessor cores into the embedded-systems market. Though SuperH, MIPS Technologies and Toshiba would like nothing more ...

As chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) prepares to launch its new 64-bit Opteron processors tomorrow, a host of software and hardware vendors are jumping on the bandwagon to show off their ...

For much of its 33-year history, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. prospered by making cheaper, sometimes faster versions of microprocessors pioneered by Intel Corp. Now, AMD is planning its biggest launch ...

Microsoft has announced it is releasing a beta version of Windows XP for AMD’s new 64-bit processor. That’s both good news and bad news for AMD. The good news is that Microsoft is showing significant ...