Mini-PCs like the Raspberry Pi are loved tinkers and retro gamers — could they be fast enough to take on the everyday things you’d do on a desktop PC? Here’s a look at one single board computer, the ...

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Images: 35 years of Intel chip design Tom Krazit writes about ...

A Russian startup company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data center owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the ...

So Microsoft has a new implementation of their own version of Rosetta called Prism, and apparently they're pretty confident about it. Unlike previous attempts, the performance of x86 Windows software ...

Intel has begun selling programming tools that let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips, an important step in making the new generation of processors useful. The Santa Clara, ...

They let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips--important in making the new generation of chips useful. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Oh no... it's alive! In spite of its astounding commercial success, x86 is almost certainly the world's most-maligned instruction set architecture (ISA). Predicting ...

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Next week, Apple's 2020 Worldwide Developer Conference is expected to detail a migration away from Intel's x86 chips to new processors of Apple's own design. Here's how that could dramatically affect ...