On the heels of what it said were brisk sales of 64-bit enabled Xeon server processors, Intel executives said Tuesday (Feb. 8) they will begin enabling Pentium 4 desktop processors for 64-bit ...

Right now, 64-bit apps and operating systems are becoming the norm, rather than the exception, for Windows users. Microsoft stopped offering 32-bit versions of Windows to its PC OEM partners in 2020.

AMD has led the 64-bit desktop processor field up to now with the Athlon 64 -- although there is, as yet, no shipping 64-bit Windows operating system, which is necessary to make the most of a 64-bit ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microprocessors will make a fresh push toward 64 bits this week, both on the desktop and in embedded systems. IBM Corp. will detail at the Microprocessor Forum here its first 64-bit ...

Apple has posted guidelines for programming Universal Binary files -- Mac OS X applications capable of running Intel processors. In the guidelines, Apple gives a brief preview of the transition ...

Mobile World Congress is always full of announcements of new products; some are surprises while others are just confirmation of the rumors that have swirled around in the industry for months. For some ...

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today, Intel launched its latest 64-bit Intel Atom Processor (codenamed Merrifield) for smartphones and tablets. The company also disclosed details of its ...

Wide buses, sophisticated pipelines, and large caches help high-end processors handle hundreds of threads. Smaller transistors and larger die sizes are radically changing the way 64-bit processors are ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 21, 2005 – Intel Corporation today announced the availability of five new processors for desktop computers that deliver entertainment and IT benefits for consumers and ...

Normal folks are more cautious. Unwilling to help the tech industry work out the bugs in its bleeding-edge products — or to pay for a product's research and development via initial high prices — they ...