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Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Another day, another rumour of an aborted Intel buyout. Earlier this week it was Qualcomm that was said to be sniffing around the injured, wheezing chip maker. Today, it's none other than Arm, in some ...

Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far Qualcomm is trying to become a major player in the laptop processor space. Its Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips, along with a concerted effort ...

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...

Microsoft says its Prism emulator software that allows x86_64 applications to run on Arm has added support for AVX and AVX2 extensions, which should improve compatibility. And Epic Anti-Cheat software ...

Intel and AMD are joining forces to establish a new advisory group with the goal of enhancing and better unifying the x86 ecosystem. In other words, the fightback against Arm intensifies. Intel and ...

Building faster processors with more CPU cores used to be enough for Intel to dominate the chip market, but the 2020s have not been kind to the iconic tech company. As Intel struggles to remain ...

Trump's punches against Intel's new CEO land a direct hit - widening the opening for the tech giant's strongest rivals Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan addresses the Intel Vision 2025 conference last March. Intel ...

Intel Corp. finds itself in an uncomfortable and unfamiliar position: While the chipmaking giant undergoes a painful restructuring under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, its rivals are mounting their most ...

Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM) expects its data center central processing unit market share to reach 50% by the end of 2025, up from around 15% in 2024. Arm’s infrastructure chief, Mohamed Awad, told ...

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 ...