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Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago
Intel is a name that's almost synonymous with the CPUs that power some of the best PCs and best laptops around today. Alongside AMD, Intel dominates a market that many argue it first cornered 45 ...
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Intel V. NEC : The Case Of The V20’s Microcode
Back in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors ... an integral part of the x86 architecture.
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The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
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 ...
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PC CPU models
The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief ...