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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 ...

ARM and x86 have been doing battle for the last decade. ARM tried to move into the server market and failed; Intel, which carries most of the x86 burden, tried to move on cellphones and failed. The ...

Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.

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 ...

‘First of all, it shows that Arm as an acceleration platform can deliver performance that is just about on par with similarly configured x86 server,’ an Nvidia representative says about new AI ...

If Apple is truly preparing to launch its own desktop and laptop CPU, it could be the most profound challenge to the AMD / Intel duopoly in decades. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on ...

OpenMediaVault 8, or OMV8 for shorts, codenamed "Synchrony" has been released, now supporting only 64-bit architectures ...

Over at the Macintoshian Achaia section of the forum, there is quite some talk about the (assumed) impending move from Intel CPUs to Apple's own ARM CPUs to power the Mac. A lot of people assume that ...

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In 2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would transition Macs to use PC-standard Intel x86 processors. Fifteen years later, Apple appears poised to make another CPU shift that could prove to be far ...

In 2005 Apple shocked the Mac community when it announced that Macs would be moving from IBM PowerPC CPUs to Intel processors. In retrospect, it was the only way to keep Macs relevant in a red-hot PC ...