The existence of third-party tools is sometimes used as a proxy for market acceptance. “Gee, if Green Hills makes a compiler for it, it must be okay.” This relates to points 2 and 3: trust. So much of ...

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 ...

Intel has released microcode updates for several generations of mobile, desktop, and server CPUs to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to trigger at the very least a denial-of-service condition ...