CPUs that process 64 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 32. Today's desktop and laptop computers are mostly 64-bit machines; however, there are countless 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit ...

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 ...

Every few years, we encounter a massive change in computing standards, like when televisions went from black and white to color, or when serial and parallel ports were replaced with USB. These days, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just as with Windows Vista, one of the big questions you face when going to pick up a new computer is whether to install the 32- or 64-bit version of Windows 7. You might want to get the 64-bit ve ...

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 ...

When Intel launched its first 32-bit processor in 1985, it might have marked a watershed moment for the personal computer industry, but users barely batted an eyelid. The 386 brought with it more than ...

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 ...

Apple has announced that Snow Leopard will be available on the 28th of this month, which is only a few days away. In the mean time there are a lot of questions regarding 64-bit computing which are ...

At last year's WWDC, Steve Jobs announced that Leopard would support 64-bit computing across the board: not only on the Unix command line as in Tiger, but also in Carbon and Cocoa. But... During ...