At the Intel Developer Forum, Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise group, said the Santa Clara, Calif. chipmaker is busy developing new instruction ...

Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

Intel and AMD have established the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, aiming to harmonize the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). This collaboration involves several prominent technology companies, ...

The researchers "conclude that at least 40% of the x86 ISA, even after excluding multimedia extensions, could be emulated ...

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 ...

This article is part of the TechXchange—RISC-V: The Instruction-Set Alternative. Intel is boosting efforts to become a top contract chip maker with a new wave of ecosystem investments. The Santa Clara ...

Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent company on the Internet defends its search juggernaut while expanding into nearly anything it thinks possible. He has ...

Would you believe that you can take a relatively-modern Intel or AMD computer and install regular old MS-DOS on it? Well, you can (depending somewhat on the machine). Doing so will utterly waste the ...