x86, the mainstream instruction set architecture for PC CPUs, originated from the Intel 8086 processor and has been in use for 46 years. Technology blog Hackaday claims that x86 will be extinct in the ...

Reduced Instruction Set Computer Architecture (RISC) is an instruction set architecture (ISA) which implies a basic bridge between hardware and software. RISC enables the communication between an ...

NEW DELHI: The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has the potential to open the tightly locked central processing unit (CPU) architecture, enabling startups and companies to develop chips for ...

On March 19, 2024, a new update was released for the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) software, version 14.1. This update is important because it adds support for AMD's latest Zen 5 processors. This new ...

Last month, a team of Google security researchers released a tool that can modify microcode of AMD's processors based on the Zen microarchitecture, the Zentool. While this is a security vulnerability, ...

Did you know that hardware can be open-source? Crucial technology leading the hardware part of the open-source movement is the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). One of the companies working ...