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 ...
Over the last few decades, Intel's x86 architecture has ruled the world of computing, powering everything from the most basic ...
Chinese CPU designer Loongson Technology is seen as China's representative to challenge international mainstream instruction set architectures (ISAs), Intel's x86 and Arm, with its own LoongArch ...
The chip maker unveiled a multi-year product roadmap that dips equally into the x86 and ARM instruction sets. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make ...
For nearly forty years, Intel has enjoyed a PC market dominated by its x86 intellectual property and has enjoyed near unanimous enforcement as it chooses. When competitors like Microsoft and ...
The researchers "conclude that at least 40% of the x86 ISA, even after excluding multimedia extensions, could be emulated with minor performance overhead in the analyzed execution traces." ...
According to The Information (paywall), chip design company SiFive has raised $65.4 million as part of its latest funding round. This funding round includes an investment from Qualcomm, and sees the ...
Back in October of 2012, AMD announced its very first ARM processors, the initial step away from the x86 CPU instruction set the company has relied on since the early '80s. However, those chips ...
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At a dinner this week with members of the press, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang laid out his view of NVIDIA's past, present, and future in light of recent developments in the processor market. Jen-Hsun's ...
AMD may be fully “committed to the x86 market,” but that commitment is beginning to look a bit more like an open relationship kind of thing instead of strict monogamy. Speaking last week, AMD’s CTO ...