Microsoft has released an update for its Prism emulator that adds support for x86 apps that require AVX and AVX2 extensions, ...

ARM and x86 have been doing battle for the last decade. ARM tried to move into the server market and failed; Intel, which carries most of the x86 burden, tried to move on cellphones and failed. The ...

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 ...

The Windows on Arm ecosystem is almost perfectly usable for my day-to-day, except for one app I can't go without.

Arm was founded as a company 35 years ago. It rules mobility and is gaining client share, but the enterprise seems out of ...

One of the architects behind SteamOS and the Steam Deck revealed that his company, Valve, is quietly playing a key role in ...

‘First of all, it shows that Arm as an acceleration platform can deliver performance that is just about on par with similarly configured x86 server,’ an Nvidia representative says about new AI ...

If Apple is truly preparing to launch its own desktop and laptop CPU, it could be the most profound challenge to the AMD / Intel duopoly in decades. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on ...

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...

Over at the Macintoshian Achaia section of the forum, there is quite some talk about the (assumed) impending move from Intel CPUs to Apple's own ARM CPUs to power the Mac. A lot of people assume that ...

In 2005 Apple shocked the Mac community when it announced that Macs would be moving from IBM PowerPC CPUs to Intel processors. In retrospect, it was the only way to keep Macs relevant in a red-hot PC ...

In 2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would transition Macs to use PC-standard Intel x86 processors. Fifteen years later, Apple appears poised to make another CPU shift that could prove to be far ...