CPUs that process 128 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits. There are no 128-bit CPUs on the market and there may never be because there is no practical reason for doubling the ...

I posted at another forum but I may have better luck here: I have this old video card that I can't figure out if it's 64-bit or 128-bit, how can I tell?<br><br>It's an S3 Savage IX 8MB AGP card with S ...

News of a leak about Microsoft’s Windows 8 sure has stirred something over the Internet. Some say Windows 8 won’t happen until Windows 7 is perfected and others say that Microsoft has already begun ...

Emil Protalinski has been reading the tea leaves: Believe it or not, Windows 7’s successor(s) have been in the planning and early development stages for a while now. … We’ve been watching closely to ...

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 ...

Remember the early 90's when we were transitioning from 16-bit to 32-bit operating systems? Some people were unimpressed, but I think most of us could see that 32-bit systems were going to solve an ...

At Microsoft’s annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in April 2005, Bill Gates predicted that 64-bit hardware, operating systems, and software would “transform the way we work and ...

In a bold attempt to leapfrog rival Intel Corp. in the performance race, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday (Sept. 23) formally introduced a family of 64-bit processors for mainstream PCs that the ...

Erik Lustig's mom called him recently in a bit of a panic. She'd been in a retail store shopping for a computer and the sales guy asked her whether she wanted a 32-bit computer or a 64-bit computer, ...

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 ...

Windows 7 is not even out the door yet and rumors are already circulating about the next version of Microsoft’s OS, Windows 8. According to Microsoft employee Robert Morgan, future iterations of ...