At the Intel Developer Forum, Pat Gelsinger, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise group, said the Santa Clara, Calif. chipmaker is busy developing new instruction ...

Intel’s upcoming Nova Lake architecture might reintroduce powerful instruction set extensions long absent from its consumer lineup. Updates to the Netwide Assembler (NASM) and related toolchains hint ...

Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would you believe that you can take a relatively-modern Intel or AMD computer and install regular old MS-DOS on it? Well, you can (depending somewhat on the machine). Doing so will utterly waste the ...

Right now, 64-bit apps and operating systems are becoming the norm, rather than the exception, for Windows users. Microsoft stopped offering 32-bit versions of Windows to its PC OEM partners in 2020.