Researchers argue that 'at least 40%' of the bloated x86 ISA could be removed and emulated to improve CPU efficiency

The researchers "conclude that at least 40% of the x86 ISA, even after excluding multimedia extensions, could be emulated ...
SiliconANGLE

Arm moves to cancel Qualcomm’s instruction set architecture license

Arm Holdings plc plans to cancel a license that gives Qualcomm Inc. permission to use its instruction set architecture in chips. Bloomberg reported the development today. Qualcomm, the world’s top ...
GIGAZINE

Claims that the CPU instruction set architecture 'x86' will perish in the near future

x86, the mainstream instruction set architecture for PC CPUs, originated from the Intel 8086 processor and has been in use for 46 years. Technology blog Hackaday claims that x86 will be extinct in the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Extending RISC-V ISA With 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 ...
TechSpot

Intel AVX10, APX are the next step in the x86 instruction set evolution

Why it matters: Intel is gearing up for what the company considers the "next major step" in the evolution of the original x86 instruction set architecture (ISA). The Santa Clara corporation is ...
TechNode

SILICON | Loongson promises self-reliance with new architecture

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Last week, Chinese processor company Loongson ...
Ars Technica

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

Back in the early days of computing, manufacturers didn't build a whole line of software-compatible computer systems where each system was aimed at a different price/performance point. Instead, each ...
ZDNet

Rediscovering RISC-V: Apple M1 sparks renewed interest in non-x86 architectures

RISC-V is, like x86 and ARM, an instruction set architecture (ISA). Unlike x86 and ARM, it is a free and open standard that anyone can use without getting locked into someone else's processor designs ...
EDN

Virtualization for Architectures

MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced a major release of the MIPS architecture, encompassing the MIPS32, MIPS64 and microMIPS instruction set architectures. Based on work done over more than two years, ...