The single most striking and obvious factor surrounding the new Hammer series of chips is in supporting both 32- and 64-bit computing without having to resort to emulation, which is currently the case ...

Armed with definitive benchmarks, we answer the burning question: Can Intel’s souped-up Xeon match the Opteron in the 64-bit x86 performance? To paraphrase Benjamin Disraeli, there are lies, damn lies ...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ™ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and ...

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. The TMS320C672x is the next generation of Texas Instruments' C67x generation of high-performance 32-/64-bit floating-point digital signal processors. The ...

Of course, as with every massive step forward, there are some weak points to 64-bit computing. Probably the greatest weakness of all is that in order for something to gain any of the benefits of it, ...

There are a lot of ways to count, but when it comes to computers there is only binary: 0 and 1. Each one is a considered a "bit." That means for 1-bit computing, you get two possible values; 2-bit ...