In just one quarter of sales, AMD has gone from being within striking distance of claiming a third of the overall x86 CPU market to exceeding it. As it has done for years, and more earnestly since the ...

Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X ...

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 ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original 8086 inherits a ...

According to the latest data from Mercury Research, AMD continues its steady progress against Intel in the x86 processor segment. In the third quarter of 2025 (thanks Tom’s Hardware), AMD surpassed ...

The balance of power in high-performance computing is tilting toward tightly fused CPU-GPU designs, and two old rivals are ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

Intel and Nvidia have just made a surprise announcement, stating that the two companies are currently collaborating on making Intel CPUs with integrated Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs. We're not just talking ...

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 ...