You’d think that the 8086 microprocessor, a 40-year-old chip with a mere 29,000 transistors on board that kicked off the 16-bit PC revolution, would have no more tales left to tell. But as [Ken ...

The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger inherited a troubled company that had lost its edge in manufacturing skills and had ceded to rivals ...

Although only a minor improvement on the 8086, the 8088 Micro-processor has gone down in history – and is arguably what fuelled Intel's rise to dominate a market for so many decades, according ...

Whatever their differences, the x86 architecture (originally designed by Intel) and x86-64 (originally designed by AMD) ...

4. There had to be both an operating system and applications software available for the processor. So why did IBM ultimately pick the 8088 over the 8086? Bradley said that the final choice was due ...

But it too depended on AC power. Batteries weren’t up to the task of powering the electroluminescent display and Intel 8086 processor. At a mere five pounds without its external disk drive ...

And when IBM entered the market with their IBM PC in 1981, also initially sporting Intel's 8088 processor but moving quickly to Intel's newest 8086 processor, the demand for PCs skyrocketed.

1982 - Advanced Micro Devices, co-founded in 1969 by a fellow Fairchild Semiconductor alum, becomes a second producer of the Intel 8086 microprocessor. This partnership would later cause a long ...