The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to anyone used to the duopoly that exists today between AMD and Intel. At one point in time, ...

Acer is offering an incredible deal on a refurbished laptop with 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and an 8-core Intel processor ...

YouTube channel The Eric Experiment has documented how he built - from scratch - a tiny custom, fully functional 486 PC. Using actual parts, this is not a Raspberry Pi system emulating a classic ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In December 2012, Linux developer Ingo Molnar sent Linus ...

Last week the world’s most powerful semiconductor company, California-based Intel Corp., brought forth the chip called Pentium, and the fifth generation dawned on the world of personal computing.

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, is seriously considering discontinuing the Intel 486 processor, 486 Linux and any other 486 architecture. The transition would occur after most users ...