Today, Google and Qualcomm announced an extension of their partnership to bring RISC-V-based systems-on-chips (SoCs) to market with support for Wear OS, a version of Android for smartwatches and ...

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 ...

Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which ...

Chip design firm SiFive has raised $175 million at a $2.5 billion as RISC-V emerges as an alternative processor architecture. The funding comes at a time when RISC-V is showing greater momentum as an ...

Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the state-of-the-art ...

The company also plans on using the tile-based architecture with Meteor Lake, a CPU family scheduled to arrive in 2023, a year before Arrow Lake. Whether Meteor Lake will mix and match Intel IP with ...

Adding network services in a secure fashion to today's network infrastructure requires deploying a large number of separate devices. These can include a Layer 4+ switch, an anti-spam gateway, firewall ...

A group of prominent chipmakers is forming a new venture to broaden the adoption of the RISC-V processor architecture. The venture, which was unveiled by its backers this morning, will initially focus ...

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 ...