Researchers and tech companies are in a global race to develop quantum computers that can solve hard scientific problems that conventional computers can’t, and that they hope can eventually support ...

Sixty-four-bit computing is here and available to systems builders now. Although recent advances in 32-bit processors have been impressive, the idea of data coursing through 64-bit wide registers at ...

Quantum computing is growing, but it's still a work in progress.

A cryostat from a quantum computer stands during a press tour of the Leibniz Computing Center in 2022. Qubit is a key term in one of the most buzzy areas of technology: quantum computing. Qubits are ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. today will ring in what it calls the third decade of Windows with the launch of 64-bit versions of the operating system for desktop computers and servers. Microsoft Chairman ...

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IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...

About 46 percent of Windows 7 PCs worldwide are 64-bit, Microsoft says, compared to only 11 percent for Windows Vista After a slow start, a larger number of PCs are using the 64-bit version of Windows ...

Qualcomm is known for its custom Krait cores, but those are still 32-bit. As 64-bit support becomes another spec sheet checkbox, Qualcomm is turning to ARM for off-the-shelf Cortex cores in the new ...

At its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here last week, Microsoft Corp. outlined its latest plans for Longhorn and 64-bit Windows, as well as a proposal designed to help users ...

In a nutshell: Intel has unveiled the latest revision of its pared-down X86S instruction set architecture. Version 1.2 takes the trimming trend further by axing multiple 16-bit and 32-bit features. It ...