Windows on Arm saw its breakout moment in 2024 after years of failed attempts at disrupting the dominance of x86 processors.

Intel continues to work on its not-yet-released redo of the x86 architecture called X86S and has released its version 1.2 specification of the ISA (via InstLatX64 on X). The chip titan proposed ...

Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture ... a number of advantages over x86 in performance, ARM when ...

Intel and AMD said several tech giants are backing their new effort to expand the ecosystem for the x86 instruction set architecture at the heart of their dueling CPU businesses. The Santa Clara ...

Enter RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture (ISA ... In 2025, U.S. tariffs on proprietary ISAs like x86 and ARM prompted many countries to explore alternatives.

[Michael Kohn] started programming on the Motorola 68000 architecture and then, for work reasons, moved over to the Intel x86 and was not ... there was a custom RISC-V instruction implemented ...

The old Intel x86 architecture ... CPUs on its database software a “long-awaited move” and said the instruction set architecture—which powers most smartphones and, more recently, all ...