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The I960: When Intel Almost Went RISC
Remarkably, the i960 as a solid RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture has its roots in Intel’s ill-fated extreme CISC architecture, the iAPX 432. As [Ken] describes in his ...
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Intel Itanium gets a new lease on life, sort of — GCC 15 "un-deprecates" Linux compiler support
Built in conjunction with HP, it was Intel's first 64-bit CPU architecture. Itanium came out before AMD's x86-64 instruction set and, thus, did not rely on the x86 instruction set. Itanium relied ...
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Ampere Computing is Acquired by Japanese Multinational Conglomerate
NEW ORLEANS - SoftBank Group Corp., the Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate, has announced its acquisition of Ampere ...
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Tech Giants Back Intel-AMD Alliance’s Fight For x86's Future
Intel and AMD said several tech giants are backing their new effort to expand the ecosystem for the x86 instruction set architecture at the heart of their dueling CPU businesses. The Santa Clara ...
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Extending RISC-V ISA With a Custom Instruction Set Extension
RISC-V ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) is designed in a modular way. It means that the ISA has several groups of instructions (ISA extensions) that can be enabled or disabled as needed. This allows ...