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 ...

Back in the days before computers, when people talked about bits they were talking about twenty-five cents. But in today’s computer world, 32-bit refers to the number of bits (the smallest unit of ...

Jim Allchin, group vice president of platforms at Microsoft Corp., wants to dispel the notion that 64-bit computing is helpful only for big database servers and computer-assisted design (CAD) ...