It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being. Intel for decades has doggedly sworn by chips based on its homegrown x86 architecture, but the ...

China’s Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That’s a unique twist in the ...

The proposed x86S CPU architecture from Intel would ditch support for 32-bit apps and operating systems entirely in favor of 64-bit software, but it could support older apps with virtualization. Right ...

Intel’s President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini delivered one of the company’s strongest endorsements for adding 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set Wednesday, but Intel still ...

When AMD CEO Jerry Sanders testified on behalf of Microsoft in their endless antitrust court battle, the dissenting states tried to paint Sanders' testimony as a quid pro quo to obtain Microsoft ...

A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce a new line of 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is ...