Prescott may have hidden 64-bit functionality (2003)

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> Prescott will not be an IA64 processor ... So whatever is in that extra chip area will forever remain hidden.

BIOS updates were issued within a 1-2 year time frame that enabled x64 on Prescott.

Well, yeah, obviously it won't be an IA64 (which is the Itanium arch)

But AMD64 yeah