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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the latest data from Mercury Research, AMD continues its steady progress against Intel in the x86 processor segment. In the third quarter of 2025 (thanks Tom’s Hardware), AMD surpassed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...