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 ...

The next-generation of computing is coming to smaller businesses - but should they care? Since the late 1980s, most desktop PCs and smaller servers have run on chips and software that process ...

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 ...

One of the biggest points of confusion around Apple's newest version of Mac OS X is about whether it's really a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system. Apple bills as supporting 64-bit from top to bottom ...

The next-generation of computing is coming to smaller businesses - but should they care? Since the late 1980s, most desktop PCs and smaller servers have run on chips and software that process ...

With the memory ceiling fast approaching for 32-bit computer applications, many major IT vendors are pushing migration to a 64-bit platform. But this time, knowing the potential for customer backlash ...

IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...

I've waited quite some time to take a look at x86-64, because I wasn't too enthused about it when it was first announced. But the more I've read about it, the more I've come around, and at this point ...

Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Most 64-bit systems have historically been tied to proprietary ...

Arm Holdings will unveil new plans for processing cores that support 64-bit computing within the next few weeks, and has already shown samples at private viewings, sources close to the company said at ...