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 ...

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 ...

The original Intel microprocessor was the 8086 chip, announced in 1978. This chip included a central processing unit (CPU) and an arithmetic-logical unit (ALU) but did not support floating point ...

So why did IBM choose the Intel 8088 processor to be in its first PC ... So why did IBM ultimately pick the 8088 over the 8086? Bradley said that the final choice was due to a familiar reason ...

A computer that uses a CPU from Intel, such as a Core, Xeon or Pentium chip. Also known as an "x86-based system." The x86 designation comes from the first PC, which used the Intel 8086 chip.

An operational state in an Intel CPU that allows it to perform as multiple 8086/8088 CPUs, which was the architecture of the first x86 chip. Virtual 8086 Mode divides the computer into multiple ...