There have been many CPUs through the years, and the newest generation of CPUs is based on a 64-bit architecture. Which one of these CPUs is a 64-bit processor?
A) Intel Itanium
B) AMD Athlon XP
C) Intel Pentium
D) AMD Duron
Answer: A) Intel Itanium
The Intel Itanium brand is a series of 64-bit processors, featuring branch predication, speculative execution, and branch prediction.
The incorrect answers:
B) AMD Athlon XP
The AMD Athlon XP was a competitor to the Pentium 4 and supported speeds from 500 MHz through 2.33 GHz.
C) Intel Pentium
The original Intel Pentium was one of the first 32-bit processors on the market that included a superscalar architecture and a new multimedia-enhanced MMX instruction set.
D) AMD Duron
The AMD Duron was a 32-bit AMD processor that touted a smaller L2 cache but a larger L1 cache (something unique for its time).
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