The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA), used today in more than 90 percent of the world's PCs and servers, hit the marketplace in 1978 as part of Intel's 8086 chip.

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Images: 35 years of Intel chip design Tom Krazit writes ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

Modern x86 is, to use the proper terminology, a CISC, superscalar, out-of-order Von Neumann architecture with speculative execution. What does that all mean?

Arm vs. x86 architecture This is the big point right here: Is your AI PC powered by an Arm or x86 processor?

Foveros is a “hybrid x86 architecture ” that will use both Core and Atom architectures in tandem.

Multiple job listings have confirmed Microsoft’s shift to X86 from PowerPC. Little is actually known about the Xbox 720, but many rumors are currently floating around about the hardware it's set ...

While arguing about programming languages with someone they asserted that Java in Windows (or x86 Linux) will always suffer a significant performance penalty compared to a SPARC architecture ...