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 ...

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 emulator can seemingly recreate an Intel 8086 processor, along with essential PC hardware, with enough accuracy to boot and run a stripped-down version of the Linux kernel. A programmer known ...

A year later, in 2018, Intel celebrated the 40th anniversary of its iconic 8086 processor by launching the limited edition Core i7-8086K. This 6-core/12-thread CPU was Intel's first to reach a 5.0 ...

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 ...

2020 - Intel's annual revenue peaks at $77.87 billion, bolstered by pandemic sales of PCs. Revenue then declines as Intel struggles with increased competition from AMD and Nvidia. Nvidia overtakes ...