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 ...

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, ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...