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Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the unheralded-releases dept.

Rucas writes "With a minimum of fanfare, Intel has begun shipping a version of the Pentium 4 with 64-bit instruction set extensions. The news came to light not via an Intel press release, but rather through the spec sheet for a new server from IBM. In the midst of the new IBM eServer xSeries servers based on the recently released 64-bit Xeon is a blade server powered by the 64-bit Prescott. This marks the first product appearance of the new CPU."

4 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Subdued Release by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny

    The low profile introduction can be explained by the official designation for the new instruction set features: they will be known as the IA32-NIH extensions.

  2. Intel Marketing Blunder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have gone for 65bit chips.

    Who wouldn't want a chip that's one better than the competition?

  3. Re:Where are the 64 bit apps? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    I'm a programmer and I have yet to see a need to get a 64 bit chip.

    This is commonly known as VB disease.

  4. Re:A Note on memory addressing by KidSock · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thus, total system memory size for these processors is limited to 64GB

    Oh, no! Does that mean I can't run Longhorn?!