Why X86 Needs To Die

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original …

Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields A Beast

The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and digital documents are so ubi…

How to Run Android Apps in Linux Without an Emulator

Follow this guide and learn how to run Android apps in Linux with WayDroid. You can get faster performance and install any APK on Linux PCs.

Emulating X86 On Apple’s AARCH64 X64 Emulator

You might know [Evan Martin] as the developer of retrowin32. It’s a Windows and x86 emulator designed to run on a Mac or on the web. He’s recently been exploring how to run 32-bit x86 b…

BIOS POST Card Built Using Raspberry Pi Pico

A computer’s BIOS includes basic diagnostic tools for troubleshooting issues. Often, we rely on the familiar beeps from the POST system for this reason. However, error codes are also availabl…

Intel Suggests Dropping Everything But 64-Bit From X86 With Its X86-S Proposal

In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched its Itanium architecture as a replacement for the then 32-bit only x86 architect…

A Cycle-Accurate Intel 8088 Core For All Your Retro PC Needs

A problem faced increasingly by retrocomputer enthusiasts everywhere is the supply of chips. Once a piece of silicon goes out of production its demand can be supplied for a time by old stock and se…

Tiny Pinball Machine Also Runs X86 Code

As arcades become more and more rare, plenty of pinball enthusiasts are moving these intricate machines to their home collections in basements, garages, and guest rooms. But if you’re not for…

Homebrew An OS From Scratch? Snowdrop Shows How It’s Done

Ever wondered what it would take to roll your own OS? [Sebastian]’s Snowdrop OS might just provide you with some insight into that process, and maybe even some inspiration. [Sebastian] create…

AVX-512: When The Bits Really Count

For the majority of workloads, fiddling with assembly instructions isn’t worth it. The added complexity and code obfuscation generally outweigh the relatively modest gains. Mainly because com…

Advantages of RISC-V vector processing over x86 SIMD

Looking at how RISC-V vector processing outperforms x86 style SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE, AVX) by utilizing pipelining in addition to doing the same operation on multiple elements.

Demystifying RISC Microprocessors Philosophy

I write a lot about microprocessors where I talk briefly about RISC and CISC processors. It is a topic that naturally pops up now that RISC processors such as those based on Arm and RISC-V are on the…

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New Part Day: Smallest ARM MCU Uproots Competition, Needs Research

We’ve been contacted by [Cedric], telling us about the smallest MCU he’s ever seen – Huada HC32L110. For those of us into miniature products, this Cortex-M0+ package packs a punch…

Compute module taps NXP’s new octa-core S32G3 CPU - LinuxGizmos.com

MicroSys announced a “Miriac MPX-S32G399A” module featuring NXP’s new S32G3 in-vehicle and industrial networking CPU, which runs Linux on up to 8x Cortex-A53 cores with up to 4x lockstep Cortex-M7 cores and 20MB system RAM. MicroSys Electronics...

When AMD Sends You a Crate of CPUs Worth (Market Value of) Roughly $500,000

The apparent bias or the priorities at Phoronix seem to have changed (no explanation was ever provided for the ‘gifts’); a single job opening at AMD, for instance, now merits a “news” post and anything that’s not x86 is mostly ignored as if it’s...