If you’re buying a PC or server, you’ve likely considered chips based on x86 or, perhaps less often, the ARM architecture. But like Linux in software, an open-source chip project is out to break the ...

Chipmaker has released information on its next-generation Atom processor and the beta of the Moblin 2.0 Linux operating system. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

TAIPEI — Two Taiwanese makers of graphics chips stepped up their support for Linux-based PCs this week by releasing the source code for some of their drivers to the open source community. Via ...

Microsoft continued its unexpected push into the chip business by announcing “Azure Sphere,” combining a chip design, a cloud security service, and even a Linux (!) kernel to better secure billions of ...

Macraigor Systems has ported its OCDemon on-chip debug technology to Linux using its usb2Demon and debug interface. The port gives engineers who develop on Linux the high speed and flexibility of ...

Why would that be so hard you ask? Doesn't Linux run on almost every processor in the world from 80386s to IBM s390x to SPARC? Hasn't Linux been running on the ARM family since 1995? Yes and yes. But, ...