Yeah, I thought they had, there's just no fanfare because truly 64-bit OS' are rare in the general masses of PCs and we also have the oft cited problem of some idiots getting 64-bit chipsets to run 32-bit operating systems or vise versa.
phongn wrote:Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.
Yes, they've been shipping Itanium's, but this is a Xeon with 64-bit extensions. Xeon is based on P4. That means they almost have a P4 with 64-bit extensions...Xeons can run XP (32-bit, and this new one, the 64-bit as well), so technically this would run as a desktop.
phongn wrote:Intel has been shipping 64-bit processors for years.
Yes, they've been shipping Itanium's, but this is a Xeon with 64-bit extensions. Xeon is based on P4. That means they almost have a P4 with 64-bit extensions...Xeons can run XP (32-bit, and this new one, the 64-bit as well), so technically this would run as a desktop.