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 of ...

The release of Intel’s 8086 microprocessor in 1978 was a watershed moment for personal computing. The DNA of that chip is likely at the center of whatever computer—Windows, Mac, or Linux—you ...

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors.

The 8086 was a solid CPU core built by intelligent architects backed up by a strong marketing campaign. The computer revolution it helped to launch, on the other hand, transformed the world.

To mark the 40-year anniversary of the Intel 8086 that powered the first IBM PC, Intel has announced the Intel Core i7-8086K Limited Edition processor, its first CPU that can hit 5GHz in turbo mode.

The Core i7-8086K marks the 40th anniversary of the 8086 processor, which was released in 1978 and lead to the highly successful x86 architecture. It's not the first time that Intel has launched ...

Intel’s original CPU, the 4004, was built as a calculator chip, ... later leading to the famous 8086 processor, ushering in the x86 era). So, how does this silicon relic boot Debian exactly?

40 years after releasing its historic 8086 processor, the one that got the x86 architecture started, Intel today announced a special limited edition anniversary processor called the Core i7-8086K.

The 8086 processor was released in 1978 and lead to the highly successful x86 architecture. It's not the first time that Intel has launched an anniversary edition CPU either. The 2014 Pentium ...