Technology AMD, Intel go from worst enemies to best friends to upgrade x86 and ward off the Arm scare

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AMD and Intel, Team Red and Team Blue have been perpetual enemies trying to get ahead of each other in the x86 arms race. However, there is another Arm in the mix that is quite different from the two fundamentally and threatens the existence of both AMD and Intel.

The ARM architecture is far more efficient which is why it has been the basis of mobile phone chipsets for the longest time. And while a decade or so ago, x86 chips from Intel still were the dominant force in the desktop and server space, that is changing swiftly. First, it was Apple that ditched Intel for its own in-house M-series silicon, and now Microsoft has also started offering several Arm-based Qualcomm Copilot+ PCs, that have neither AMD nor Intel.

The threat is very real and it looks like AMD and Intel are finally acknowledging the common enemy they have. Today, the companies have announced the new x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group that has been formed to improve x86 and AMD64 (the 64-bit version of x86 that AMD licenses to Intel), and the entire software and hardware ecosystem that is reliant on it.

Microsoft happens to be one of the founding members of the group. It also has Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, and Red Hat, and luminaries include Linus Torvalds and Tim Sweeney.

AMD, Intel go from worst enemies to best friends to upgrade x86 and ward off the Arm scare

AMD and Intel has announced today the formation of the new x86 ecosystem advisory group to improvement the overall x86 architecture and product ecosystem.

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