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Arm versus x86 is a battle for the ages. And 2025 was meant to be the year that Arm chips finally made inroads into the PC and indeed PC gaming. That should have been thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon X ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Peace in our time, or so AMD and Intel would like you to believe. These bitter frenemies are clubbing together to protect and develop the x86 standard for desktop and laptop gaming CPUs and to fight ...

From CPUs that overheated to those with poor performance—plus some that nearly killed the companies that made them.

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 ...

Intel and Nvidia have just made a surprise announcement, stating that the two companies are currently collaborating on making Intel CPUs with integrated Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs. We're not just talking ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...