Designers are often faced with a decision on which microcontroller variety to use, and are left to parse out the differences between 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCUs. 16-bit MCU was previously favored in some ...

There are two flavors of 64-bit slots: 33 MHz and 66 MHz. Most of your average everyday 32-bit cards will work fine in a 33 MHz 64-bit slot. They won't work in a 64-bit 66 MHz slot, though. The 66 MHz ...

CPUs that process 64 bits as a single unit, compared to 8, 16 or 32. Today's desktop and laptop computers are mostly 64-bit machines; however, there are countless 32-bit, 16-bit and 8-bit ...

… or is the 16-bit microcontroller family dead? Over the years, the lines have blurred between the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontroller families with designers confused to when they should select which ...

One of the common choices today is whether to run a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system on desktop machines. Since 32-bit operating systems have been in production for many years, 32-bit still seems to ...

You're probably aware that 64-bit and 32-bit versions of your operating system exist, but apart from ascribing to a bigger-is-better philosophy, you may have no idea ...

Seeing how Intel and AMD are supposedly going to release their 64-bit chips soon and many software vendors are looking to convert their programs to 64-bit code to accomodate these chips I was ...

To carry out this run of benchmarks I chose a base system that represents the sort of system that someone might want to have 4GB or more of RAM installed and therefore want to go the 64-bit route. I'm ...