Intel Programming Tools Reach New 64-bit Chips

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edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
Intel has begun selling programming tools that let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips, an important step in making the new generation of processors useful.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker plans to announce on Monday the new version of its compiler, an essential tool that translates software written by humans into instructions a computer can understand. Intel earlier this year began selling Xeon and Pentium 4 processors with 64-bit extensions called EM64T that enable the processors to easily use more than 4GB of memory. Intel's 64-bit chips came more than a year after rival Advanced Micro Devices came out with its own version of the idea, called AMD64, in its Opteron and Athlon 64 products.
Source: ZDNet
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