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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. Fan Boy Alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fan Boy Alert

    Yeah of course a 2000+ AMD will wip a 3.4Ghz P4 EE.

    Give it a break.

    I was going to buy Althlon MP's except for the fact that USB was broken and they never fixed it.
    Have had sound/ide noise issues on Via Boards too.

  2. Who cares by screwedcork · · Score: 0, Troll

    My Intel 486 is still working fine, that's the best product they've ever made