Transmeta Corp. has licensed Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s 64-bit microprocessor and HyperTransport bus technologies, which the company will use to migrate its x86-based processors from a 32- to a ...

Addressing the hot topics of low power and high speed in microprocessors, startup P.A. Semi (Santa Clara, CA) is getting ready to release a high-performance 64-bit microprocessor that claims to use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"When we looked at AMD64 technology, we looked at more than just the instruction set and the memory addressability," says Patrick Patla, Opteron marketing manager at AMD. "We looked at all the ...

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Wide buses, sophisticated pipelines, and large caches help high-end processors handle hundreds of threads. Smaller transistors and larger die sizes are radically changing the way 64-bit processors are ...

There would be some virtualization overhead; but realistically, how fast does a '286 emulation need to be? Even the last 32bit CPUs are so old by now that quite a bit of emulation overhead would ...