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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Intel confirms development of 64-bit Pentium 4

Thanks Keith. Investor's Business Daily: "The world's largest chipmaker is quietly designing a 64-bit chip for PCs based on x86 architecture ... In September, AMD came out with an x86 64-bit chip called the Athlon 64. It's the first 64-bit x86 processor for PCs. And AMD's signed up some big-name customers. After decades of being ingrained in computing, tons of software works well with x86 ... Intel spokesman Robert Manetta says the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker has a working prototype of a 64-bit x86 design that it could bring to market 'when customers request it.'" Hey, Intel. We're requesting it. Here is a story I wrote about this processor, code-named Yamhill, a while back. I also discussed 64-bit computing more generally in this article.

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