As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the ...

IBM’s selection of the 8088, an 8086 variant, to power its PC in the early ’80s gave the x86 architecture tremendous momentum and helped it become an industry standard that persists today.

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 ...

IBM ‘s selection of the 8088, an 8086 variant, to power its PC in the early ’80s gave the x86 architecture tremendous momentum and helped it become an industry standard that persists today.