Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched an industry group dedicated to improving the x86 instruction set architecture. Besides the two chipmakers, the consortium, announced at the ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

In just one quarter of sales, AMD has gone from being within striking distance of claiming a third of the overall x86 CPU market to exceeding it. As it has done for years, and more earnestly since the ...

After announcing its intentions in February, Intel Monday shipped an x86-microprocessor that runs both 32- and 64-bit applications. Unlike rival AMD, however, Intel is first rolling out a 32/64-bit ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

Arm enters the chip business with its AGI CPU for AI data centers, claiming 2x performance versus x86. The historic pivot ...

VIA Technologies, Inc, has announced details of the VIA Isaiah Architecture, a new x86 processor architecture that will deliver significant boosts to the functionality and performance of desktop, ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA and Intel's partnership to develop custom x86 processors with NVIDIA RTX GPUs raises supply chain and OEM concerns, including Acer's CEO. The addition of a third x86 architecture ...

China's Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That's a unique twist in the ...