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 team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their ...

Like many pre-21st-century technological artifacts including steam locomotives, audio tapes, and 4-bit microprocessors—16-bit processors have reached the end of their useful life. Steve Leibson, ...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ™ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and ...

We’ve heard the story before. I was a proponent of it in the late 1990s, with the ‘first fully configurable’ processor core. So, did we already experience the ‘first’ one many years ago, or was the ...

If you have never heard of the Bellmac-32, you aren’t alone. But it is a good bet that most, if not all, of the CPUs in your devices today use technology pioneered by this early 32-bit CPU. The chip ...

Apple fans have been craving some innovation for a while and the company seemed to deliver it Tuesday with the new A7 chip in the iPhone 5S, the first 64-bit processor to appear in a smartphone. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. In recent years, the RISC-V architecture has gained ...

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 ...

India unveiled the Vikram 3201, its first indigenous 32-bit processor for rockets and satellites, built by ISRO and SCL ...

I have a home server that I'd love to start running Exchange 2007... however that is 64-bit only. The server has a socket 478 processor though. Did Intel ever release 64-Bit processors for this ...