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 ...

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 and AMD have announced four new technical standards aimed at strengthening the x86 architecture. The group was established to improve compatibility, simplify development, and expand the ...

In brief: Intel 12th Gen Core desktop processors never officially supported AVX-512, but we have workarounds to enable this instruction set. However, new firmware releases might render these methods ...

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 ...