September 15, 2003

ESTÁ O MUNDO PREPARADO PARA 64 BITS?
Esta é a pergunta colocada no centro de todas as atenções no Forum Intel, que se realiza em S. Francisco: "This year more digital cameras were sold than film cameras," he said. "All the people taking all those digital pictures need printers and computers to plug them into so they can collect those pictures, burn them onto CDs or DVDs and retouch them or e-mail them to friends."

Kevin Krewell, a senior analyst at the Microprocessor Report, said he is curious to find out if Intel plans to extend its Xeon chips to process 64 bits of data at a time, like Itanium does, instead of just 32 bits.

"I expect there will be a lot of questions about Prescott (the upcoming Pentium chip) vis-a-vis Athlon 64," which rival Advanced Micro Devices will launch next week as the first processor for home computers using the advanced data crunching, he said.

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