Windows on Arm saw its breakout moment in 2024 after years of failed attempts at disrupting the dominance of x86 processors.

Its 16-bit architecture and CISC design made it versatile for both personal and business computing. The 8086's legacy lives on in modern Intel processors, showing the lasting impact of this ...

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 ...

Intended as an indirect successor to the successful 8080 (which was followed up by the equally successful 8086), this new architecture was a ‘micro-mainframe’ that would target high-end users ...