Intel ships 64-Bit Pentium 4 chips
WinInfo | at | by Mike
On Monday, microprocessor giant Intel finally introduced its line of x64-compatible Pentium 4 chips, ushering in an era of mainstream 64-bit computing. The Pentium 4 6xx series chips run at clock speeds of 3.2 GHz to 3.6 GHz, utilize a large 2 MB L2 cache, and offering compatibility with the x64 platform first pioneered by AMD. All that's missing now is an x64-based operating system, and Microsoft is set to release Windows XP Professional x64 Edition within the next several weeks.