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 ...

I keep reading here and elsewhere about how a 64 bit processor doesn't offer any inherently better performance over a 32 bit one, and that makes sense to me. Except for the case of 64 bit floating ...

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 ...

The multi-core, 64-bit processors leverage ARMv8 compliant cores, which can operate at up to 3 GHz, and can reduce server costs and power by more than 50 percent, according to AppliedMicro. X-Gene ...

In brief: Arm's latest mobile CPU and GPU designs are official, and the big focus this year is on boosting energy efficiency through various microarchitectural improvements. The company is also ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

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 ...

When it comes to operating systems, the distinction between 32-bit and 64-bit versions plays a significant role in how your PC performs and handles tasks. The terms "32-bit" and "64-bit" refer to the ...

A Chinese startup called Milk-V has begun selling computers with RISC-V processors in China, with plans to expand to the global market soon. The MILK-V Pioneer features a Sophon SG2042 processor, ...

Fabbed using a 0.1-µm, low-k copper process, the RM9000x2 64-bit, MIPS-based dual processor employs the Linux OS and draws less than 10W of total power with each processor running at 1 GHz. The device ...

Windows 10 can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit processor architectures. If you have a computer with a 32-bit setup, you can upgrade to the 64-bit version without acquiring a new license. The only caveat ...