Latest kernel includes 14,612 changesets, Penguinistas been busy Over the holiday weekend, Linus Torvalds released the latest ...

Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon China has spawned a ...

Windows on Arm laptops have new benchmarks for performance and battery life. But there are scenarios where only an Intel-based machine will rescue you.

Abstract: Malware authors and software protection frameworks often use anti-debugging techniques to hinder understanding of the underlying code. Companies use anti-debugging techniques to prevent ...

The new group aims to collaboratively define the future direction of the x86 architecture ... by Intel to streamline the existing x86 instruction set by developing a simplified 64-bit mode ...

Intel decided to focus on the 64-bit native architecture developed for Itanium instead of x86-64. The company felt that a 64-bit Pentium 4 would have damaged Itanium's chances to win the PC market.

A new instruction set aims to ensure compatibility between the traditional x86 architecture from 1978, predominantly used by Intel, and the modified x86-64 variant developed by AMD. The group seeks to ...

Although the specific goals of the advisory group remain a bit broad and vague, the overall aim is to advance the x86 architecture, which has been the bedrock of PC chips for both Intel and AMD ...

ARM might appear more naturally efficient, yet Intel insists x86 is just as good in the right ... with overlays in the registry file, and then 64-bit, which partially cleaned it up.

Intel processors found in desktop and laptop computers are sometimes referred to as “x86” processors. The 64-bit architecture that all modern computers use today now sits on top of the x86 model, ...