“At the end of the day, what we’re trying to do is accelerate compute and accelerate the adoption of compute,” she said. “x86 has been the foremost leader in architecture over the last 40 years, and the idea is that AMD and Intel are bringing together all of these founding members (who) can really accelerate the pace of innovation going forward.”

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.

"x86 is the de facto standard. It's a strong ecosystem, but it's one that really Intel and AMD have co-developed in a way, but an arm's length, and you know, that has caused some inefficiencies and some drift in portions of the ISA over time." AMD EVP of datacenter solutions Forrest Norrod said during a press briefing ahead of the announcement.

Intel and AMD have joined forces to form an industry alliance for the x86 ISA, which is probably something nobody had on their 2024 bingo card. The two rivals will collaborate on future endeavors to benefit the x86 ecosystem along with a broad set of industry heavyweights,

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),