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’s first x86-based chip, the 5MHz 8086, was introduced on June 9, 1978. Earlier this year, the company passed the 1 billion mark for units shipped on x86 processors, a feat that might have been ...

Intel and AMD, two of the largest names in computing, have teamed up to form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, a significant initiative aimed at advancing the future of the x86 architecture. This new ...

Storied rivals Intel and AMD have formed an industry group dedicated to "[shaping] the future of the world's most widely used computing architecture." The two companies announced the x86 advisory ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel is reportedly working on a next-generation Cobra Cove x86 architecture, which will power future-gen processors with higher performance and power ...

Well-known Apple -focused blogger John Gruber recently made a statement that caught a lot of people's attention. Following the launch of the Apple iPad Pro, which uses an Apple-designed A9X processor, ...

Back in October of 2012, AMD announced its very first ARM processors, the initial step away from the x86 CPU instruction set the company has relied on since the early ’80s. However, those chips ...

It didn't take long for console warriors, fanboys and a brutal media to take aim at Nintendo's Wii U. The fledgling system was relentlessly teased for its name (seemingly even sillier than that of its ...