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 ...

It is easy to port C compilers to architectures that look like old minicomputers or bigger CPUs. However, as the authors of the Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) found, pushing C into a typical 8-bit CPU ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The launch of Apple’s new iPhone 5S focused heavily on the handset’s new 64-bit A7 processor, with the company boasting that this new chip would offer “desktop-class architecture” to users Just days ...