The chipmaker's lab tests show that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young OS. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance, a major accomplishment for the comparatively young ...

Most desktop and laptop computers from the past two decades use 64-bit x86 processors, but older 32-bit x86 CPUs (also known as i386 or i686) are still around. Even though Windows and many Linux ...

"On the server side, about 1989, '90, we dropped the 32-bit server strategy," said Scott McNealy, Sun's chairman, president and CEO, at LinuxWorld. "We just said, 'That's dead,' that it's not going ...