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 ...

They let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips--important in making the new generation of chips useful. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Current CPUs have some features dating back over 40 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Intel has released a whitepaper ...

In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched its Itanium architecture as a replacement for the then 32-bit only x86 architecture ...

Intel plans to use its Developer Forum this week to unveil products and lay out its technology road map aimed at giving businesses tools to run more complex applications faster. CEO Craig Barrett is ...

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 ...

Would you believe that you can take a relatively-modern Intel or AMD computer and install regular old MS-DOS on it? Well, you can (depending somewhat on the machine). Doing so will utterly waste the ...

Officially, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name just a ...

A common 64-bit architecture provides 32-bit backward compatibility. Minor incompatibilities that exist can be addressed by compiler and operating-system implementations. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) ...

Back in June, y-Cruncher developer Alexander Yee criticized Intel's decision to remove AVX-512 (Advanced Vector Extensions 512) from its 12th Gen (Alder Lake) and newer CPUs, calling it "a huge step ...