Deep within your computer is a blueprint that specifies a certain “language” of machine instructions it can understand and ...

Some would say that all x86 instructions are crazy, especially if you are accustomed to reduced instruction set computers. The x86, like other non-RISC processors, has everything but the kitchen sink.

Intel and AMD said several tech giants are backing their new effort to expand the ecosystem for the x86 instruction set architecture at the heart of their dueling CPU businesses. The Santa Clara ...

Microsoft Windows runs applications written for either x86 or Arm processors, though the version of Windows has to match up ...

Also making the list are Intel and AMD who, despite their long-running rivalry, this week launched an initiative together to expand the ecosystem for the x86 instruction set architecture.

Intel is no longer working on the x86S specification. The chipmaker confirmed its decision to Tom's Hardware, and comes just ...

Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) is an extension to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds hardware transactional memory support, speeding up the execution of multi ...

Could the fifth generation of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) dethrone the long-established advanced RISC machine ...