The chip titan proposed last year that it was about time to introduce a slimmed-down, 64-bit-only version of the x86 architecture, which Intel created alongside the famous 8086 chip back in the 1970s.

As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a ...

have a look at the list of what’s inside a modern Intel chip and compare it to the relatively tiny list of the original 8086 instruction set (which is still in there, too). According to the ...