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 ...

It's not quite fully native, though.

Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie") , for x86-64 systems.

Linux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used ...

The arch directory in the kernel source tree contains all of the architecture-specific code. There is a lot of code there, despite years of work by the development community to make things generic ...

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 ...

The big picture: The x86-64 instruction set was initially announced by AMD in 1999, providing a significant upgrade to the leading PC computing architecture. The technology proved highly successful, ...

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 architecture ...

When AMD CEO Jerry Sanders testified on behalf of Microsoft in their endless antitrust court battle, the dissenting states tried to paint Sanders' testimony as a quid pro quo to obtain Microsoft ...

Microsoft announced today that the expected support for 64-bit x86 emulation on Windows on ARM devices has arrived, provided you are running Build 21277. You'll need to be part of Microsoft's Windows ...