Re: New Intel Silverstone Chip

"YANSWBVCG"  wrote in message >
Tim Roberts  wrote:
> > dfeustel  wrote:
> >>
> >>Is the new Intel Silverstone chip 64-bit instruction capable, or only
32-bit?
> >
> > It took me a while to figure out that you really meant
"Silverthorne"...
> >
> > The official marketing name is "Intel Atom".  Details are still
sketchy,
> > but everything I read seems to show that is will do x86 32-bit, but
not
> > 64-bit.  Since it is targetted at things like cell phones and iPods,
the
> > lack of 64-bit wouldn't be an issue.
>
> Thanks! Atom looks interesting to me although I am more interested in
> the 64-bit capable Via Isaiah chip. I have one re****t of Isaiah
> motherboards ****pping late this year. An Atom-based HP50g-like
> calculator would be interesting.
>

The info I peeked seems to suggest that Silverthorne has 64-bit:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=987
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)#Silverthorne_Architecture