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 ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

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 ...

The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) doesn't seem to be going anywhere. We've had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn't budged. By and large ...

In the face of growing competition from Arm-based chip designers, the rival CPU companies say several tech giants—including Microsoft, Dell Technologies, Lenovo and HP Inc.—are joining their new ...

Intel and AMD have formed an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure consistency on the instruction set architecture (ISA). Alongside the rivals are founding members Microsoft, Google, Meta, HP, ...

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 ...

This new technical paper titled “Symmetric Cryptography on RISC-V: Performance Evaluation of Standardized Algorithms” was published by researchers at Intel, North Arizona University and Google, with ...