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 is reportedly working on a next-generation Cobra Cove x86 architecture, which will power future-gen processors with higher performance and power efficiency. We've been hearing about Royal Core, ...

Storied rivals Intel and AMD have formed an industry group dedicated to "[shaping] the future of the world's most widely used computing architecture." The two companies announced the x86 advisory ...

Intel’s 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 in 1981 for the original IBM PC and used 8086-family ...

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 ...

Nintendo may have had help from Nvidia to make an easily programmable architecture and operating system. CD Projekt RED has shared an interesting insight about the technology behind the Nintendo ...

In a move that shouldn’t be that surprising, NVIDIA has announced that its popular CUDA platform is being ported to x86. The obvious angle here is that this will give NVIDIA a weapon against OpenCL ...