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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Answering the competitive threat from Advanced Micro Devices, Intel Corp. officially rolls out Monday (June 28) its first X86 processor capable of handling 64-bit data. Aimed at ...

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 ...

Arm has announced that from 2023, all of its new smartphone CPU cores will be 64-bit only, with no 32-bit compatibility mode. We have had 64-bit capable smartphone processors since 2013 when Apple ...

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...

Processors by AMD continue to use the same performance rating system that compares them to the old style clock speed product names of Intel processors. AMD's performance ratings do at first seem ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine an alpinist climbing within 100 feet of a summit and being told he could go no farther without a special pass. Or a chef being informed that the transcendent ingredient in her signature dish ...

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 ...

Last Friday, Arm announced the newest generation of its real-time processor series, the Cortex-R82. Most people are more familiar with the Cortex A-series of CPUs, which are used as the primary ...

Processors by AMD continue to use the same performance rating system that compares them to the old style clock speed product names of Intel processors. AMD's performance ratings do at first seem ...