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 ...

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 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 Intel 8088 processor was launched on June 1, 1979, and a few years later IBM picked this CPU to be inside its first personal computer. 44 years later, the influence of the 8088 is still felt.

Intel will also launch a new X-series lineup and a new Core S-series processor later this year for desktops. The original Intel 8086 processor from 1978, left, sits next to the new Intel Core i7 ...

An iconic processor for an iconic PC. The Intel 8088 Micro-processor ran at 5MHz, representing a 50-times speed boost against the 4004 chip eight years before, and it included 29,000 transistors ...

AMD is offering anyone who wins one of Intel's Anniversary Edition Core-i7 CPUs a free trade-in for one of its own high-powered offerings, the Threadripper 1950x. With 16 cores and 32 threads, it ...

Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, ... The jump to the 16-bit 8086 processor was much less evolutionary.