September 23, 2003
Forbes: The Great 64-Bit Game
At 12:00 P.M. ET, AMD (nyse: AMD - news - people ) will formally release its much-anticipated Athlon 64 PC Microprocessor. For those following the saga since the company first presented a paper on its "Hammer" chip architectures at a chip industry forum in 1999, it's been a long wait.
The Hammer chips--Sledgehammer became AMD's Opteron server chip, Clawhammer became Athlon 64--extend the x86 chip instruction set that is the underpinning of the chips running virtually every modern PC that isn't a Macintosh into the 64-bit realm, while also running conventional 32-bit applications. In 64-bit mode, the chip can address far more memory and therefore cut through huge amounts of data much faster than a conventional 32-bit machine. Everything gets faster at 64 bits. (full story)
Get Small Business Technology Report
Via Email Every Tuesday
What is Smallbiztechnology.com?
Smallbiztechnology.com helps small-medium sized businesses strategically use technology as a tool to grow their businesses and provides news, articles, discussion boards, resources, analysis & events for the owners of small to medium sized busineses.
Subscribe to the Smallbiztechnology feed.
Recent Posts
- Online Marketing: Are Your Campaigns Under Control?
- Making the Move to a New Web Host Provider
- Online Backup So Many Viable Choices. Which One Is For You?
- Windows Home Server - For Home Based Businesses With Small Networks
- LinkedIn: It's Much More Powerful Than You Think
- Is Email Keeping You Down. An IBMer Skips Email for Social Tools
- Keep Your Laptop Bagged At the Airport: NEW TSA Rules
- As Gas Goe$ Up, Use Technology To Communicate
- Why Open Source Works, Tech Partners Are Essential and ERP Is a Must
- Data Ownership, Access and Location. It's A Mystery.
The Third Annual Small Business Summit 2008 was a smashing success. Check out the Summit site for what you missed. See the 2008 Summit presentations, video and photos!
Post a comment