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 ...

Chinese CPU designer Loongson Technology is seen as China's representative to challenge international mainstream instruction set architectures (ISAs), Intel's x86 and Arm, with its own LoongArch ...

By running production workloads simultaneously on x86 and Arm, Google is signaling a new era of hardware neutrality and ...

The big picture: When you think of Arm's processor designs, power efficiency is likely one of the first attributes that come to mind. The British chip firm's RISC architecture has long been praised ...

For nearly forty years, Intel has enjoyed a PC market dominated by its x86 intellectual property and has enjoyed near unanimous enforcement as it chooses. When competitors like Microsoft and ...

YouTube and Gmail already running on both x86 and homebrew Axion silicon, 70,000 more apps in the conversion queue Google has ...

According to The Information (paywall), chip design company SiFive has raised $65.4 million as part of its latest funding round. This funding round includes an investment from Qualcomm, and sees the ...

At a dinner this week with members of the press, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang laid out his view of NVIDIA's past, present, and future in light of recent developments in the processor market. Jen-Hsun's ...

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Windows on ARM isn't new: from Windows Phone to Windows RT to Windows IoT, Microsoft has had multiple systems that take Windows beyond the familiar Intel and AMD processors. Older versions of Windows ...