The first major fruits of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group (EAG) have come in the form of ACE, a new set of matrix ...

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 ...

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have created an advisory group, including members from other technology companies such as Google, Microsoft MSFT0.37%increase; green up pointing triangle and Meta META ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In celebrating the x86 architecture’s 39th birthday yesterday—the 8086 processor first came to market on June 8, 1978—Intel took the rather uncelebratory step of threatening any company working on x86 ...