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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."

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  1. Re:The last thread on Xeons... by brsmith4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    EM64T is not x86_64 or 64bit extensions. It is an on-chip hack to allow it to address more than 4Gigs of memory.