[Michael Kohn] started programming on the Motorola 68000 architecture and then, for work reasons, moved over to the Intel x86 and was not exactly pleased by the latter chip’s perceived shortcomings.

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

You might know [Evan Martin] as the developer of retrowin32. It’s a Windows and x86 emulator designed to run on a Mac or on the web. He’s recently been exploring how to run 32-bit x86 binaries on the ...

With x86 and ARM based laptops being both available in the market, which one should you pick over the other? The post x86 vs ...

Intel recently made an unprecedented public challenge to Microsoft and Qualcomm that basically told the latter two companies: if you ship an x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) emulator, we’re ...

The key technical milestones achieved as part of Intel’s and AMD’s work on the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include new performance, security and reliability improvements coming to the x86 instruction ...

Starting with Windows Vista, the 64-bit versions of Windows have two Program Files folders. The regular Program Files folder holds 64-bit applications, while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32-bit ...

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 ...

Deep within your computer is a blueprint that specifies a certain “language” of machine instructions it can understand and execute. This blueprint (called the “instruction set architecture”) sits ...

The new year has indeed started out with a bang for the computer industry. Two highly publicized security flaws in the Intel x86 chip architecture have now emerged. They appear to affect other ...

IN THE BEGINNING there was the IBM PC, and it was good. Then came the PC clones—and several tangentially related machines in the 1980s that utilized the Intel x86 CPU architecture because it, well, ...

Dave Thomson asked about the folders Program Files and Program Files (x86). “Why are there two, and is there some advantage of using one over the other?” First, you shouldn’t pick one over the other.