AMD is positioning embedded computing as a next growth engine, aiming to carry the x86 CPU competitiveness it has built in ...

NVDA's Vera CPU push targets agentic AI and AI factories as its platform strategy aims to carve out space in a market led by ...

Intel still leads with 67.4% of the overall x86 market, but AMD gained nearly six percentage points in a year while Intel's ...

AMD's server volumes grew strongly, according to Mercury, with the firm taking a third of the server CPU market share (33.2 ...

Arm data center competition reached a turning point at Computex 2026 as Arm confirmed 50% of hyperscaler CPU compute, AMD ...

Curiously, the Intel 8086 was conceived as a stopgap while the more technologically ambitious 32-bit iAPX 432 struggled with ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The rumors have once again surfaced that Nvidia Corp. may enter the x86-based microprocessor market. For some time, there have been reports that Nvidia would enter the x86-based ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The microprocessor industry is in a consolidation phase and should rally around extending the x86 architecture to new market spaces, especially for network and handheld systems, ...

While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip in its already-marginal market share, but it isn’t ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.