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- proper noun computing Any of a family of
instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086microprocessor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am a power user running a x64 copy of Vista (x86 is not practical in my environment).
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Post-x86 is by no means a forgone conclusion, and Intel is doing the right things to forestall such an eventuality, but it is far from preposterous — especially from a user device perspective.
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But most calculating jobs will be handled by general-purpose microprocessors -- known by the designation x86 -- that are a mainstay of personal computers.
Intel Offers Details 2008
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Mr. Gelsinger made it clear that the standard Intel circuitry used by most of its chips -- known by the designation x86 -- will do much of the work associated with graphics, though the chip will include a more specialized component called a vector processing unit.
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David, either you work for Intel or you’re wearing blinders. x86 is a wasteful architecture and the needless energy consumption is problematic for large data centres.
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Intel can’t stop Nvidia on all fronts, but it hasn’t been one to take its intellectual property or its near monopoly in x86 chips for granted — even if x86 computing is losing its ubiquity.
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It can certainly be said that the argument for software momentum preserving x86 is less compelling in the mobile realm (and I’m referring to platforms smaller than netbooks here).
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While existing virtualization on x86 is not great, I’d much rather put 4-8 VMs on x86 blades and call it a day than modify/recompile everything and try to get closed-source ISVs to support yet another microarchitecture. —
Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The Itanium chip, which was developed as a joint effort between Intel and H-P in the 1990s, is a separate strain of technology from the so-called x86 chips used in most personal computers and servers.
H-P's Payments to Intel for Chip Detailed in Oracle Suit Ben Worthen 2012
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The graphics chips are used to accelerate the number-crunching functions most often carried out by so-called x86 chips, which evolved from personal computing and have long dominated supercomputing.
U.S. Plans Supercomputer Push Shara Tibken 2011
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