AMD and Intel are teaming up to ffinish off ARM chips

The partnership comprises a extfinished catalog of other establishing members including Microsoft, Google, and Meta, as well as Lenovo, the company that presented the proclaimment at its Tech World 2024 conference in Bellevue, Washington. This morning’s keynotice featured euniteances by AMD CEO Lisa Su as well as Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who unastonishingly shelp that the x86 architecture is “ainhabit and well.”

According to a press free, the stated goal of the advisory group is to “raise compatibility, foreseeability and consistency apass x86 product proposeings.” The group intfinishs to ask for input from x86 challengingware and software enhugeers and hopes to originate “simplified architectural directlines” to help normalize interfaces apass AMD and Intel’s product lines.

That’s a worthwhile goal, but you also don’t have to read too challenging between the lines to see the recent group as an effort to repromise enhugeers, customers, and (maybe mostly) spendors that these companies — essentiassociate the only two originaters of x86 chips — are Doing Someslfinisherg about ARM. Integrated chips based on ARM architecture are on the elevate: Apple filledy transitioned from Intel chips to ARM-based Apple silicon midway thraw last year, and after a decade of fall shorted finisheavors Qualcomm is finassociate proving that it can originate a excellent ARM chip for Windows machines.