AMD is positioning embedded computing as a next growth engine, aiming to carry the x86 CPU competitiveness it has built in ...

Intel still leads with 67.4% of the overall x86 market, but AMD gained nearly six percentage points in a year while Intel's ...

AMD's server volumes grew strongly, according to Mercury, with the firm taking a third of the server CPU market share (33.2 ...

Curiously, the Intel 8086 was conceived as a stopgap while the more technologically ambitious 32-bit iAPX 432 struggled with ...

Arm data center competition reached a turning point at Computex 2026 as Arm confirmed 50% of hyperscaler CPU compute, AMD ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The microprocessor industry is in a consolidation phase and should rally around extending the x86 architecture to new market spaces, especially for network and handheld systems, ...

China’s Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That’s a unique twist in the ...

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The rumors have once again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based microprocessor market. For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based ...

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 ...

The Nintendo Switch can run Steam, and that means a lot for the future of Arm gaming.