Re: New Intel Silverstone Chip

Noob <root@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>> Dave Feustel 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.
>
>I would tend to agree with you.
>
>But ArsTechnica's Hannibal seems to think it will be 64-bit.
>
>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-small-wonder-inside-intels-silverthorne-ultramobile-cpu.html
>
>Anand's article is interesting too.
>
>http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3230

You are correct; I've now seen 3 articles that mention x86-64 (although
only briefly in each case), so I will back down from my initial
conclusion.

It is fascinating that none of the Intel literature mentions this.  All
I've seen in the official docs is "x86 front end".
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 & Boekelheide, Inc.