Sixty-four-bit computing is here and available to systems builders now. Although recent advances in 32-bit processors have been impressive, the idea of data coursing through 64-bit wide registers at ...

Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Most 64-bit systems have historically been tied to proprietary ...

Erik Lustig's mom called him recently in a bit of a panic. She'd been in a retail store shopping for a computer and the sales guy asked her whether she wanted a 32-bit computer or a 64-bit computer, ...

At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — In a bold attempt to leapfrog rival Intel Corp. in the performance race, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday (Sept. 23) formally introduced a family 64-bit processors for mainstream ...

I've waited quite some time to take a look at x86-64, because I wasn't too enthused about it when it was first announced. But the more I've read about it, the more I've come around, and at this point ...

Remember the early 90's when we were transitioning from 16-bit to 32-bit operating systems? Some people were unimpressed, but I think most of us could see that 32-bit systems were going to solve an ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. This month, 64-bit Wintel computing took a major step ...

IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...