Intel’s 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 in 1981 for the original IBM PC and used 8086-family ...

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 ...

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Images: 35 years of Intel chip design Tom Krazit writes about ...

In a strategic move to strengthen and expand the capabilities of the x86 computing architecture, Intel Corporation and AMD announced the formation of an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group. This ...

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 ...

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have created an advisory group, including members from other technology companies such as Google, Microsoft MSFT-0.41%decrease; red down pointing triangle and Meta ...

Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi is making waves this Halloween thanks to recent comments he made at this week's Hack in the Box conference in Malaysia regarding the security of the x86 architecture.

Intel is reportedly working on a next-generation Cobra Cove x86 architecture, which will power future-gen processors with higher performance and power efficiency. We've been hearing about Royal Core, ...

Things just a lot more interesting in the x86 server market. AMD has announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a ...

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 a ...