Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which chip design leads modern computing innovation.

"Chip design is not rocket science. It's much more difficult," is a running joke in the industry. But in an age where AI is helping solve some of the biggest challenges across medical science and ...

It's no secret that general-purpose compute performance has been largely stuck in idle these last few years, with top-end improvements limited to single-digit increases. DARPA has a plan for ...

Arm and Qualcomm are at loggerheads and in court, which could have some interesting implications for the future of CPU design. The phrase “big company” is somewhat relative in the context of consumer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. From its focus on state-side manufacturing to new cutting-edge ...

This article is part of the TechXchange: TinyML: Machine Learning for Small Platforms. Arm is pumping up its ambitions for on-device AI. The world’s largest semiconductor IP vendor rolled out its ...

The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...

Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. The reason is ...