AMD is plotting a CPU based on the Arm rather than x86 instruction set. So goes the rumour and so has it gone for literally decades. Actually, it's more than just a rumour, since AMD announced an Arm ...

China's Loongson Technology has designed two 64-bit, quad-core Mips processors that can also execute code based on the x86 (Intel-compatible) and ARM architectures. That's a unique twist in the ...

The new Opteron A1100 packs eight Cortex-A57 CPU cores, with each pair of cores sharing a 1MB L2 (512K effectively allocated to each chip). An 8MB L3 cache backs the entire CPU cluster, and the CPU ...

Fig. 1: Created by ChatGPT from a text prompt. The data center processor market has seen two major tectonic shifts in the last decade. It used to be that all data center compute was x86, and well more ...

The CIX P1 processor is a 12-core Arm-based chip designed to offer PC-class CPU, graphics, and AI features. MINISFORUM tapped this processor for its MS-R1 desktop computer, and Radxa and Orange Pi ...

TL;DR: AMD's new Sound Wave APU is an Arm-based chip that will feature 2 x P-Cores and 4 x E-Cores, RDNA 3.5, MALL cache, to compete with Qualcomm and Intel in 2026 for the Windows on Arm battle.

The Windows PC market appears to be in flux at the moment. With the end of support coming this month for Windows 10, companies are trying to decide whether to finally jump to Windows 11, move to ...