In spite of its astounding commercial success, x86 is almost certainly the world's most-maligned instruction set architecture (ISA). Predicting the death of x86 used to be a favorite pastime of ...

Intel’s x86 won out on desktop and smaller servers while ARM proclaimed victory in low-power and portable devices, and for Big Iron you always had IBM’s Power ISA.

CPU fanatics and EE's alike have been ringing the death knell for x86 since, well, x86 came out. In the not so distant past, one could make a name for oneself by writing insane diatribes on how ...

Typically, since their inception, they have been x86 architecture-based, whereas nearly the entire world's smartphones are ...

And with Intel already looking to modernize and de-bloat the aging x86 ISA for the modern age, the newly formed advisory group, along with tighter collaboration with AMD, ...

Over 90% of the world's computers and servers are still using the x86 ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) introduced by Intel in 1978. Many have tried to come up with an alternative, but nothing ...

An x86 chip can be more power efficient than an ARM processor, or vice versa, but it'll be the result of other factors -- not whether it's x86 or ARM. Tagged In CISC MIPS ISA Cpu Components ...

The x86-64 ISA was fully compatible with "legacy" x86 code while introducing a new 64-bit mode with more powerful instructions, larger vector registers, and more.

We'll talk about APX first, because there's less to say about it. APX is what Intel is calling an extension to the x86 ISA that primarily doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs ...

The x86-S whitepaper provides an extensive list of the changes brought by the new architecture to the classic x86 instruction set. The 64-bit only ISA removes ring 1 and ring 2 from CPU protection ...

There are two types of ISA: CISC (complex instruction set computer) and RISC (reduced instruction set computer). Back in the 1970s, Intel developed a CISC called x86 for microprocessors that ...