CPUs that process 32 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 64. Although 32-bit CPUs were used in mainframes as early as the 1960s, personal computers began to migrate from 16 to 32 bits in the ...

CPUs that process 64 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 32. Today's desktop and laptop computers are mostly 64-bit machines; however, there are countless 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit ...

Do you remember the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit computing in the 1980s, and the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms in the 1990s? Well, here we go again. We double up again, this time leaping from ...

After I got my Dual Athlon rig, I booted up UT for the first time in a while... and it was AMAZING. The game play just was sooo smooth. Thought I know not a dual proc capable game, each of my new ...

Operating systems (OS) are the intermediary between computer hardware and software, an essential piece of any digital device. Much like an orchestra conductor, they ensure harmonious communication ...

EDA departments are moving away from proprietary RISC and UNIX to standard x86 hardware and Linux. Open source 32-bit Linux running on relatively inexpensive x86 servers has allowed EDA managers to ...

Can developers utilize a 32-bit architecture with a clear upgrade path even when low power and compact size are high on the list of requirements? Arm Ltd. attempts to answer that question with its ...

In a press conference at LinuxWorld here Monday, the Sun Microsystems chairman and CEO unveiled the vendor's new x86-based server, the LX50, which runs the Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. "On ...