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AMD has been showing off it first 64-bit Clawhammer processor in the US, part of its X86-64 (X86Instruction code/64-bit) strategy, enabling users to run both 32-bit (Windows currently) and future 64-bit applications on the one ship.
Intel has separated both with the Itanium/McKinley handling only 64-bit, leaving Pentium 4 to tough out 32-bit applications. How ever, there are rumours of and Intel Silicon
codenamed Yamhill thatwill handle both.
The first desktop versions of AMD's Clawhammer will reportedly be available by the end of the year. Intel, on the other hand, is talking about making one 2003-vintage Pentium 4 act like two. Codenamed Prescott, it will have a feature called 'hyper-threading'. This isn't the same as Windows' multitasking. Multitasking enables Windows to juggle multiple applications at once, but the processor only ever works at one time -- it just time-splices. Hyper-threading will enable the Pentium 4 t run two applications at once.
As you'd expect, there are currently no applications able to take hold of the this new feature.
Extract from Australian PCUser Magazine @Darren Yates
more reads @ http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1591
and @ inquirerinside.com/02010217.htm
Intel has separated both with the Itanium/McKinley handling only 64-bit, leaving Pentium 4 to tough out 32-bit applications. How ever, there are rumours of and Intel Silicon
codenamed Yamhill thatwill handle both.
The first desktop versions of AMD's Clawhammer will reportedly be available by the end of the year. Intel, on the other hand, is talking about making one 2003-vintage Pentium 4 act like two. Codenamed Prescott, it will have a feature called 'hyper-threading'. This isn't the same as Windows' multitasking. Multitasking enables Windows to juggle multiple applications at once, but the processor only ever works at one time -- it just time-splices. Hyper-threading will enable the Pentium 4 t run two applications at once.
As you'd expect, there are currently no applications able to take hold of the this new feature.
Extract from Australian PCUser Magazine @Darren Yates
more reads @ http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1591
and @ inquirerinside.com/02010217.htm
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