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 ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel ... new instructions were added, but the core of the x86 instruction set was ...

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 ...

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 ...