AMD continues to grow stronger as Intel's positions slip.

The fact that modern-day x86 processors still pretty much support the same operating systems and software as their ancestors did is quite a feat. Much of this effort had already been accomplished with ...

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 ...

The CPU market giveth, and the CPU market taketh ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

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 ...

Standardizing APX doubles the GPR count to 32, resulting in 10% fewer loads and 20% fewer stores, without significantly increasing power or silicon area.

In just one quarter of sales, AMD has gone from being within striking distance of claiming a third of the overall x86 CPU market to exceeding it. As it has done for years, and more earnestly since the ...

VIA Technologies, Inc, has announced details of the VIA Isaiah Architecture, a new x86 processor architecture that will deliver significant boosts to the functionality and performance of desktop, ...

The company again recorded gains in both client and server segments quarterly and yearly. Dean McCarron of Mercury Research noted that x86 processor shipments aligned with typical seasonal trends in ...

AMD reached a record 46.2% of x86 server CPU revenue share in Q1 2026. According to Mercury Research data, the report showed ...

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 ...