AMD continues to grow stronger as Intel's positions slip.

While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip in its already-marginal market share, but it isn’t ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The microprocessor industry is in a consolidation phase and should rally around extending the x86 architecture to new market spaces, especially for network and handheld systems, ...

The CPU market giveth, and the CPU market taketh ...

The company again recorded gains in both client and server segments quarterly and yearly. Dean McCarron of Mercury Research noted that x86 processor shipments aligned with typical seasonal trends in ...

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today launched an industry group dedicated to improving the x86 instruction set architecture. Besides the two chipmakers, the consortium, announced at the ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

China’s Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That’s a unique twist in the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The rumors have once again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based microprocessor market. For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

Intel’s manufacturing revival includes an intriguing footnote: The company’s new foundry business plans to make its x86 processor portfolio and other technologies available for other chipmakers to ...