Quick question is the Intel Atom 64 or 32 bit?

[Informant X]

Title says it all. Are any Intel Atom's 64 bit or are they all 32?

 

[Fox5]

The desktop atoms (230 and 330) are 64 bit. All netbook atoms are 32 bit.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't see why they didn't just make all of them 64-bit capable.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I don't see why they didn't just make all of them 64-bit capable.

Are they running different dice? I'm assuming x86-64 support is not on chips that don't support it, it's a small chip after all and those transistors are probably expensive. However it wouldn't be the first time Intel artificially disabled something for market reasons.

 

[Soulkeeper]

This wiki tells which ones support "intel 64"

 

[Ben90]

also amd owns the x64 license so since no atom will see 4+ gigs of ram there is no point in artificially increasing the cost

 

[Soleron]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I don't see why they didn't just make all of them 64-bit capable.

Are they running different dice? I'm assuming x86-64 support is not on chips that don't support it, it's a small chip after all and those transistors are probably expensive. However it wouldn't be the first time Intel artificially disabled something for market reasons.

No, they actually disabled it.

To physically remove 64-bit from the die would be years of design work, just like adding it was.

 

[hans007]

its disabled. they dont want netbooks to sound too powerful, or it would affect sales of higher end laptop cpus too much. it already has even with all the disabling.

im sure its the same reason theres no dual core atom netbooks yet (i mean if a n270 is 2.5 w max, a dual core would be... 5W and not much power draw difference, but there are none of these for sale)