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 ...

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If Apple is truly preparing to launch its own desktop and laptop CPU, it could be the most profound challenge to the AMD / Intel duopoly in decades. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on ...

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 ...

VIA is working on a new CPU design with an unveil planned for late August -- could this core be a combined ARM-x86 hybrid? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...

Recent years have seen shakeups in the traditional dichotomy of the processor landscape, in which Arm ruled the mobile market with its low power consumption and cost, while Intel dominated the x86 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. It takes a significant market disruption to bring fierce competitors like Intel and AMD ...

In 2021, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, which received the Arm licenses in 2019. This acquisition ignited the dispute between Qualcomm and Arm. Industry sources in Taiwan indicate that the declining ...