The CEO of Intel has declared that x86 hardware is anything but dead, announcing a new expert partnership that will see it join up with old rival AMD to promote the technology. Speaking at Lenovo ...

Actual data transfer to and from the device can use three mechanisms—system memory, x86 I/O ports, and PCI configuration space. x86 I/O ports are there to provide legacy compatibility, and PCI ...

Intel and AMD share access to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA), first introduced with the 8086 in the late '70s. By hook or by crook, AMD secured a licence to make compatible chips and ...

Paul Murphy: The big players -- IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and Intel -- appear to have laid down four major hardware bets. Sun's is both the most announced and most misunderstood.

But Qualcomm’s push for Arm hardware and Intel’s somewhat frantic defense of the x86 has lots of people repeating it again. At Computex, Adam picked the brain of Steve from GamersNexus on this ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. Thursday extended the reach of its Solaris 9 Operating System x86 Platform Edition, certifying an additional 100 hardware platforms to run it. The Santa Clara, California ...

The Boston Viridis server Anandtech reviewed runs about $20,000 while the x86 hardware is less than half that price. Power consumption matters -- but $12,000 per box pays for an awful lot of wattage.

The CEO of Intel has declared that x86 hardware is anything but dead, announcing a new expert partnership that will see it join up with old rival AMD to promote the technology. Speaking at Lenovo ...