Android Authority

Arm vs x86: Instruction sets, architecture, and all key differences explained

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 ...

Your Windows 11 on Arm PC can now run even more x86 apps and games thanks to Microsoft's latest Prism emulation update

Microsoft has released an update for its Prism emulator that adds support for x86 apps that require AVX and AVX2 extensions, ...
Digi Times

Loongson poised to challenge x86, Arm with own CPU architecture

Chinese CPU designer Loongson Technology is seen as China's representative to challenge international mainstream instruction set architectures (ISAs), Intel's x86 and Arm, with its own LoongArch ...
CRN

Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Chip Designer Ventana To Boost CPU Efforts

Qualcomm said Wednesday that it has acquired Ventana Micro Systems, a startup that was focused on developing server CPU ...
Android Authority

Custom CPU cores versus Arm Cortex cores: Everything you need to know

All Android smartphones and all Apple iPhones use CPUs based on the Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). An ISA defines the instruction set and outlines the design philosophy behind that ...
Ars Technica

Challenge: a C program that runs on x86 but not on ARM

Over at the Macintoshian Achaia section of the forum, there is quite some talk about the (assumed) impending move from Intel CPUs to Apple's own ARM CPUs to power the Mac. A lot of people assume that ...