The CEO of Intel has declared that x86 hardware is anything but dead, announcing a new expert partnership that will see it join up with old rival AMD to promote the technology. Speaking at Lenovo Tech World 2024,

During Lenovo Tech World 24, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and AMD CEO Lisa Su came on stage at different points and discussed the collaboration headlined by the two chip manufacturers.

Intel and AMD unveiled a new x86 ecosystem advisory group will enlist several tech giants as members, including Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HP Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Google.

Intel and AMD have created an x86 ecosystem advisory group that brings together technology leaders to shape the future of the world’s most widely used computing architecture – x86. The group will focus on identifying new ways to expand the x86 ecosystem by enabling compatibility across platforms,

Like Professor X and Magneto, Intel and AMD know when to team up and take on a shared adversary. The two companies have formed a new x86 advisory group to stem the platform’s bleeding from Arm’s rapidly growing adoption.

Intel and AMD are joining forces to establish a new advisory group with the goal of enhancing and better unifying the x86 ecosystem. In other words, the fightback against Arm intensifies. Intel and AMD share access to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA),