AMD's Sempron "budget" processors will get a feature once reserved for its older and faster brothers: 64-bit support. Sempron should arrive just in time to take on Intel's 64-bit Celeron-D:
Abbinanti declined to provide additional details. However, in technical terms, adding 64-bits into Sempron won't be much of a stretch. The feature is already widely deployed throughout AMD's Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. And selected technical documentation, as well as message traffic on AMD user forums, indicates that the company has at least begun folding information on the feature into some of its detailed guides for system designers and programmers.
Abbinanti declined to provide additional details. However, in technical terms, adding 64-bits into Sempron won't be much of a stretch. The feature is already widely deployed throughout AMD's Athlon 64 and Opteron processors. And selected technical documentation, as well as message traffic on AMD user forums, indicates that the company has at least begun folding information on the feature into some of its detailed guides for system designers and programmers.
