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.

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 ...

VIA is releasing its new x86 processor called Isaiah. The chip is deemed to perform twice as fast as VIA's current processor while maintaining the same amount of power consumption. The first series of ...

LONDON — CPU Technology Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.) is developing a family of 64-bit configurable processor cores designed to be used in arrays to accommodate deeply coupled computing architectures, the ...

Intel Corp. will have its Itanium coming-out party May 29 with several vendors launching servers and workstations, according to various industry sources. Intel’s latest processor will be the company’s ...

AMD has finally taken the wraps off its upcoming 8-core ARM SoC, codenamed Seattle. Seattle (officially designated Opteron A1100) is a server-class clip, with four or eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 cores ...

China’s Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That’s a unique twist in the ...

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 ...

The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief ...

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 ...

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 ...

I guess this is a real thing? https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-w...sed-64-bit-only-cpu-architecture-called-x86s/ I guess so... here's the white paper on Intel's site ...