Intel to ship new 64-bit chips in June
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
Itanium who? Intel's new Pentium 4-based 64-bit chips will ship in June, the company said this week, along with support for a new security extension that will help Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)-based systems be more secure. The new microprocessors, based on what Intel calls EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology), will also support Hyperthreading, which makes a single processor perform like dual processors in many situations. Still, Intel has a ways to go before it catches up to AMD, which pioneered the AMD-64 platform which Intel is now copying. What an interesting turn of events.