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This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it
By Ross Kelly published
AMD acquired NexGen for a bumper fee in the mid-1990s in a bid to boost its own chip range

Qualcomm poaches Xeon chief architect to compete better with AMD and Intel in AI data center CPU market
By Efosa Udinmwen published
Qualcomm taps Intel Xeon veteran Sailesh Kottapalli to drive innovation and advancing its data center CPU push.

Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to 'legal issues'
By Wayne Williams published
Nvidia almost produced an x86 CPU to rival Intel, but was forced to move to Arm due to 'legal issues'.

“Rumors of my death are severely exaggerated” — Intel CEO assures users x86 is “thriving” as it finally partners with long-term rival AMD
By Mike Moore published
New x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group looks to reassure users there is still a bright future for the technology.

Microsoft’s Arm-based Copilot+ PCs are fast and very capable with AI – but fresh doubt has been cast on the gaming prowess of these laptops
By Kristina Terech published
Microsoft’s Arm-based Copilot+ PCs are very capable with AI tasks, but gaming performance may be worse than we thought, according to a new report.

Microsoft, just give up on the whole Windows-on-Arm idea — the fixation on Apple and the Qualcomm dalliance could end up harming the very partners that stood by your side for 40 years
By Desire Athow published
12 years after Windows RT, Microsoft wants to push Arm as an x86 replacement

Chinese tech giant announces 'game-changing' 3,072-core RISC-V server
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
China hits a key milestone with Alibaba demonstrating the first cloud server powered by a RISC-V chip.
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