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 ...

One of the biggest points of confusion around Apple's newest version of Mac OS X is about whether it's really a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system. Apple bills as supporting 64-bit from top to bottom ...

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 ...

Most customers are waiting for 64-bit applications to arrive before moving beyond 32-bit computing. AMD temporarily jumped ahead of Intel in 2003, when it introduced its 32- or 64-bit Opteron chip, ...

About 46 percent of Windows 7 PCs worldwide are 64-bit, Microsoft says, compared to only 11 percent for Windows Vista After a slow start, a larger number of PCs are using the 64-bit version of Windows ...

Microsoft fleshed out its road map for transitioning customers to 64-bit computing and unveiled updates to several of its management and server products at its IT Forum 2005 conference in Barcelona on ...