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 ...

With ARM processors increasingly becoming part of the desktop ecosystem, porting code that was written for x86_64 platforms is both necessary and a massive undertaking. For many codebases a simple ...

In case you are unaware, MediaTek holds the Top position in the global smartphone processor market with a 35% market share (as of Q3 2024). Qualcomm follows in second place, having a 25% market share.

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 ...

When Qualcomm launched its Snapdragon X series processors, it didn't just release a single chip but gave us an entire range of ARM-based CPUs designed to challenge the traditional x86 dominance in ...

In a nutshell: Mountain View has officially joined the custom-CPU crowd by showing off its first "general-purpose" processor. The Google Axion chip leverages the Arm architecture to provide ...

Advanced Micro Devices is taking steps to bridge the gap between x86 and ARM processors, and hopes to build a foundation from which programs will operate on mobile devices like tablets independent of ...

NVIDIA's next-generation AI PC processor will feature Arm-based Blackhawk CPU cores, Blackwell RTX GPU cores, and next-gen LPDDR6 memory. The new details on NVIDIA's next-gen Arm-based AI PC processor ...

Could the next generation Xbox run on an ARM-based processor? The possibility has been mooted ever since Microsoft's FTC-related leak revealed that the firm was investigating which architecture to ...