A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available. Adding 64-bit features would let x86 chips such as Intel’s Xeon and Pentium overcome today’s 4-GB memory limit but also could undermine the hope that Intel’s current 64-bit chip, Itanium, will ever ship in large quantities. Itanium was once expected to spread as widely as Pentium, but Itanium sales forecasts have been declining in recent years.
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Intel Rethinks 64-Bit Strategy for Desktop-Grade Processors
Posted by: Gene Koprowski January 30, 2004 10:20 AMA new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available. Adding 64-bit features would let x86 chips such as Intel’s Xeon and Pentium overcome today’s 4-GB memory limit but also could undermine the hope that Intel’s current 64-bit chip, Itanium, will ever ship in large quantities. Itanium was once expected to spread as widely as Pentium, but Itanium sales forecasts have been declining in recent years.