Intel on Monday quietly marked the 25-year anniversary of x86, the basic architecture underlying the chips that power most of today's PCs. Intel's first x86-based chip, the 5MHz 8086, was ...

Intel is promising Core-branded Sunny Cove CPUs in the second half of 2019. In 2020 this will be followed by Willow Cove, a Sunny Cove with a redesigned cache, new security features, and new ...

Furthermore, Intel tried to replace or supplant the x86 architecture multiple times. The iAPX 432, Intel i960, Intel i860, and Intel Itanium were all intended to supplant x86.

Intel also increased the number of instructions that can be executed in a single clock cycle from two to four. The company also developed a shared L2 cache on the chip, whereas previous Intel ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Intel has officially entered the race to heterogeneous computer processors, sketching out the first members of its Sandy Bridge family that will ship before April. The 32nm chips ...

Intel's Tremont Architecture Is A Significant Departure From Its Predecessors Tremont is a low-power, 10nm x86 microarchitecture that is the successor to Goldmont Plus, which is used on current ...

There was a time when Intel was all-x86, all the time, everywhere. Not anymore. Last week Intel held its annual Architecture Day with previews of multiple major upcoming architectures beyond x86.

And Larrabee will be based on the universal Intel x86 architecture. ... Each core has 256 kilobytes of level-2 cache allowing the size of the cache to scale with the total number of cores, ...

The chipmaker has been roundly criticized for that incompatibility, which hampers software support, but Intel's strategy is sound because Itanium serves a market largely unaffected by the x86 ...

Intel is unveiling its new "Tremont" ultra-low-power 10nm CPU architecture today at the Linley Fall Processor Conference in Santa Clara. Intel's presentation on the new architecture says that ...

Intel said it is redefining x86 architecture performance with the launch of its new “groundbreaking” 12th-generation Core CPUs ... Another new feature is Intel Smart Cache architecture, ...

Apple's new M2 has finally broken cover and the CPU looks like a solid jump forward -- and a further challenge to both Intel and x86. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...