Every week the Hackaday tip line receives an email about a new dev board. The current trend is towards ARM devices, and only once have we seen an x86-based device. Today that count went up to two.

Intel’s manufacturing revival includes an intriguing footnote: The company’s new foundry business plans to make its x86 processor portfolio and other technologies available for other chipmakers to ...

The x86 instruction set architecture (ISA), used today in more than 90 percent of the world’s PCs and servers, hit the marketplace in 1978 as part of Intel's 8086 chip. So when the worldwide Intel ...

Opening up things, see how they work, and make them do what you want are just the basic needs of the average hacker. In some cases, a screwdriver and multimeter will do the job, but in other cases a ...

Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel introduced its first 16-bit ...

While there are many milestones in the history of computing, few are as important as the introduction of the Intel 8086 microprocessor, a 16-bit CPU that laid the foundation for the client-server, ...

IBM has announced the sale of Big Blue's x86 server division to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, thus terminating IBM's long-running relationship (and one-time rivalry) with Intel and freeing the company ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

The Udoo X86 II is a single-board computer (SBC) that addresses a similar target group to that of the Raspberry Pi. The X86 II, as its name suggests, is not another ARM-based SBC, though. Instead, it ...

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