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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Intel Corp. here today confirmed it has delayed a next-generation, 64-bit microprocessor line by one year, after the company decided to re-engineer the product. The company also ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 10 can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures. If you have a computer with a 32-bit setup, you can upgrade to the 64-bit version without acquiring a new license. The only caveat ...

There would be some virtualization overhead; but realistically, how fast does a '286 emulation need to be? Even the last 32bit CPUs are so old by now that quite a bit of emulation overhead would ...