http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/10/windows-8-wont-be-128-bit/ my opinions, conjectures, and thoughts Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/10/windows-8-wont-be-128-bit/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Wes Kroesbergen Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:58:58 +0000 http://kroesbergens.com/portfolio/?p=138#comment-13 Yes, it would, and did take a lot of work. What you might be unaware of however, is that Windows 7 supports it, as well as Mac OS X Snow Leopard. GPU/CPU parallel processing is here, and brings far more benefit than 128 bit will for the next 6 years. The other thing to note, is that IA-128 would actually refer to the Itanium server processing, not regular old x64... So while it may show up in server side computing in the next 6 years, it will not on the client side. Yes, it would, and did take a lot of work. What you might be unaware of however, is that Windows 7 supports it, as well as Mac OS X Snow Leopard. GPU/CPU parallel processing is here, and brings far more benefit than 128 bit will for the next 6 years.
The other thing to note, is that IA-128 would actually refer to the Itanium server processing, not regular old x64… So while it may show up in server side computing in the next 6 years, it will not on the client side.

]]> http://www.kroesbergens.com/portfolio/2009/10/windows-8-wont-be-128-bit/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Steven Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:01:49 +0000 http://kroesbergens.com/portfolio/?p=138#comment-12 It would take quite a lot of improvement in the software technology to make use of video processors as if they were the main CPU--that would allow for some kind of 128-bit (if not 256-bit) computing. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but I don't know if that's where MS would want to put their effort. It would take quite a lot of improvement in the software technology to make use of video processors as if they were the main CPU–that would allow for some kind of 128-bit (if not 256-bit) computing. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, but I don’t know if that’s where MS would want to put their effort.

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