If you're reading this on a PC running Windows, it's almost certainly a 64-bit version of the operating system. It also supports 32-bit applications, which is why so many old games will run on it, but ...

For most people, you turn on your computer, and it starts the operating system. However, the reality is much more complex as [Thasso] discovered. Even modern x86 chips start in 16-bit real mode and ...

Alpine Linux 3.20.0 is out, with initial support for a whole new CPU architecture: RISC-V. With the latest release, the distro supports eight different architectures: IBM Z mainframes and POWER ...

Officially, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died back in 2021, when the company shipped its last processors. But failed technology often dies a million little deaths. To name just a ...

You’ve probably seen 32-bit and 64-bit options available whenever you download an app or install a game. Your PC might even have a sticker that says it has a 64-bit ...

Google has moved to a 64-bit app ecosystem to offer a better software experience, with the latest Pixel 7 phones being the most recent demonstration of this shift. Following the lead, Xiaomi has now ...

Abstract: The open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) is gaining traction, both in industry and academia. The ISA is designed to scale from microcontrollers to server-class processors.

The operating system itself will require an 8 GB microSD card to be installed. The Raspberry Pi Imager tool can then be downloaded on a different computer, and the 64 ...

The Sysnative folder in Windows 64-bit is a virtual folder and an alias that points to the System32 folder on 64-bit systems. It doesn’t exist physically on your system. This post explains the ...