Normally, it’s impossible to run games built for PC on Android devices. This is because the games for PC run on the x86 architecture, while smartphones use ARM architecture instead.

Unlike competitors that rely on mobile chips like ARM processors, iConsole.tv is readying a device that uses an x86 CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hybrid disk drive/SSD, and an undisclosed GPU. In ...

Google Android is generally aimed at mobile devices with ARM-based processors. But we’ve seen several efforts to bring the software to x86 processors, including the independent Android-x86 ...

The team at the Android-x86 project Abba released their latest version of an Android based desktop operating system, offering an open source platform that can run Android 9 Pie on a desktop ...

Android's Native Development Kit (NDK) now includes support for x86 devices and the MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 instruction sets.

Android developers are all too familiar with not-so-hot emulator performance, so it's a relief that there's now an system image in a native x86 for testing. While you'll still likely want to test ...