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 ...

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 ...

There are known undocumented instructions in a lot of x86-class ... s inside a modern Intel chip and compare it to the relatively tiny list of the original 8086 instruction set (which is still ...

x86, the mainstream instruction set architecture for PC CPUs, originated from the Intel 8086 processor and has been in use for 46 years. Technology blog Hackaday claims that x86 will be extinct in ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86 ... is RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) based, while x86 is CISC (Complex ...

[Creel] has a top ten that should appeal to many Hackaday readers: the top 10 craziest x86 assembly language ... instructions are crazy, especially if you are accustomed to reduced instruction set ...

Intel's then-mobile chief Mike Bell clearly stated that the concept of an "x86 tax" simply isn't true. “There is nothing in the instruction set that is more or less energy efficient than any ...