A friend came by the other day. He is planning to buy a new laptop and he wanted my advice. He’s an avid gamer and wants to get the fastest machine he can afford. He travels several months out of the ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Computer Inc., which for months has been encouraging PC users to switch to its Macintosh computers, is on the verge of some switching itself. The company, which has used ...

Microsoft has announced it is releasing a beta version of Windows XP for AMD’s new 64-bit processor. That’s both good news and bad news for AMD. The good news is that Microsoft is showing significant ...

Intel has released a whitepaper outlining a way to simplify its CPU architectures by removing legacy 16-bit and 32-bit support, therefore making them 64-bit only. Intel believes this change will lead ...

Raspberry Pi is now shipping the Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which at the same $35 price as its Pi 2 predecessor packs a more powerful 64-bit CPU, and for the first time, has built-in wireless ...

AMD is turning to the ARM design for a new series of chips, an unmistakable sign that the heyday of "x86" chips is over. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

AUSTIN, Tex. — Hoping to get a jump on its competitors, Dell Computer Corp. late today announced what could be the world's first server based on Intel Corp.'s much-delayed, 64-bit Itanium ...

Sipeed’s new LicheeRV is a tiny computer-on-a-module featuring a 64-bit RISC-V processor, 512MB of RAM, a microSD card for storage and a USB-C port for power and/or debugging. While the tiny computer ...

Libre Computer have this week launched a new piece of hardware via Kickstarter which takes the form of a next-generation 4K Ultra HD SBC development board which has been specifically designed for ...

IBM is preparing a 1.8-GHz PowerPC processor, its fastest to date, that will run both 64-bit and 32-bit applications, the company announced today. The PowerPC 970 processor, due out in the second half ...

The Raspberry Pi is arguably the world's most successful and accessible computer platform that anyone can program. The Raspberry Pi foundation has now launched the Pi 3, an upgraded model for the same ...