News Chrome Will Soon No Longer Function on 15+ Year Old Processors

[Admin]

Chrome will stop working on CPUs that pre the Core 2 Duo and Athlon 64 in the near future.

Chrome Will Soon No Longer Function on 15+ Year Old Processors : Read more

 

[hftvhftv]

This wont affect much, but it's still sad to see.

 

[cryoburner]

That means processors older than the Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon 64 will no longer support the browser, as anything older lacks the SSE3 instruction set.

More precisely, only the "newer" Athlon64s support SSE3. Those models released in 2003 and 2004 only support SSE2, whereas the 2005 and newer models support SSE3.

 

[Chung Leong]

Sucks if you're an astronaut aboard the ISS.

 

[margrave]

If you have an ancient PC ... just don't update Chrome. Simple.