The nugget indicates that Intel could have beaten AMD to the x86-64 punch if the former wasn't dead-set on the x64-only Itanium line of CPUs. The historical context of this story and the comments ...

In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched ... removing all pre-x86_64 features out of x86 CPUs. While today you can ...

The building blocks of Intel's processor range can be traced all the ... Don't forget AMD either, the developers of x86-64, who will have to work with Intel so as not to break the ecosystem.

Officially, Intel's Itanium chips and their IA-64 architecture died ... when AMD introduced a 64-bit processor lineup that didn't break compatibility with existing 32-bit x86 operating systems ...

Back in May of 2023, Intel proposed a new 64-bit only "x86S" specification to streamline modern CPUs. The company wanted ... with the recently formed x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group, Intel has ...

Intel is known for creating processors under the x86 and x86-64 architectures, while Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series is based on an architecture known as ARM. It’s not immediately clear what the ...

Analyst views launch as confirmation that the chip maker is ‘looking to regroup and pick fights it thinks it can win.’ ...

A decade ago, the landscape of the x86 processor market was nowhere ... the company posed a real threat to Intel was back in ...

And is shows how a united front of X86 CPU makers against the Arm collective and the ... For example, it was AMD, and not Intel, that first delivered 64-bit memory and processing extensions to the X86 ...

Intel’s x86 won out on desktop and smaller ... ARMv8-based CPU will differ from a similar x86_64- or RV64I- or RV64IMAC-based CPU. Here the highly modular nature of RISC-V adds significant ...