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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Opteron: It sounds like one of Godzilla’s mechanical foes, but it’s actually Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s name for its next-generation 64-bit processor, formerly code-named ...
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 ...