The researchers "conclude that at least 40% of the x86 ISA, even after excluding multimedia extensions, could be emulated ...

Microsoft's earlier attempt, Windows RT, was even worse. Released alongside Windows 8, it was intended for Arm-based devices, ...

AMD has already announced that it plans to build ARM and x86 cores on a common platform going forward -- but what if that's just the first step in the company's long-term plan? We examine the case for ...

Once upon a time, there were a myriad of CPU architectures vying for dominance. Occasionally, you'd even have multiple architectures from the same vendor competing against each other. As happens in ...

A new paper from the University of Wisconsin tackles the question of whether ARM or x86 is more power efficient with updated processors and results from China's Loongson processor. Does ISA still ...

Chinese manufacturer LattePanda has introduced a new addition to its line of x86 single-board computers (SBCs). The LattePanda "Iota" aims to provide a seamless upgrade from ...

Industrial experts in the AI and server computing field will most likely know about NVIDIA's MGX series of offerings. Broadly ...

One of the oldest ideas in humanity – and one that may have predated language as we know it – is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Another adage is that he who has the gold makes the rules, and ...

An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the software interface through which for example a central processor unit (CPU) is controlled. Unlike early computer systems which didn’t define a ...

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In a nutshell: The Windows Insider program offers Microsoft fans the opportunity to act as unpaid beta testers for the latest OS developments. While Redmond rarely introduces major changes to how ...