Intel made the x86 chips that were the heart of a PC motherboard, ... are likely to remain loyal to the older platform and its guaranteed high frame rates. But the pressure is on Intel, for sure.

As Intel's former chief x86 architect, Colwell knew this to be true, and thus designed the earliest internal versions of Pentium 4 CPUs to be x86-64 instead of mere x86 chips.

Intel is hard at work on a new x86 microarchitecture, which will reportedly arrive sometime between 2019 and 2020. ... Given the usual time frames involved in designing CPU architectures, ...

The chipmaker has been roundly criticized for that incompatibility, which hampers software support, but Intel's strategy is sound because Itanium serves a market largely unaffected by the x86 ...

Last week, Sebastian Anthony met with Intel's chief of mobile to discuss the future of x86, and how the Santa Clara chip giant will go about dismantling its opposition.

Still, for its part, Intel's Bobby Hallock, once of AMD, has been his usual ebullient self, proclaiming that "you've never seen x86 power characteristics quite like this." Image 1 of 2 (Image ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but ...

The AI laptop race is heating up once more with the debut of the new Intel Core Ultra 200V or “Lunar Lake” laptop CPUs. According to Intel, Lunar Lake chips are the most efficient x86 ...

AMD continues to gain ground on rival Intel, ... Intel's share of the overall x86 CPU market grew sequentially from 73.9% to 75.4%, while AMD's slipped in the same time frame from 26.1% to 24 ...

Macs powered by Apple silicon, such as the M1 MacBook Pro, can run both iOS apps and Mac apps, but they can also run x86-64 software that's been built to work on Intel architecture, thanks to ...

Qualcomm's introduction of the Snapdragon X, which powers almost every new Copilot+ Windows PC, has created an existential crisis for Intel. Can the x86 architecture handle the competition?

Intel believes x86 chips such as Xeon, ... A probable time frame for making that change at Intel is 2007, when the chipmaker plans to unify the interface between Xeon and Itanium chips, ...