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 ...

To reduce the engineering effort needed to incorporate the 8086 into designs, Intel opted for an on-board charge pump to generate the bias voltage. The circuit consists of a ring oscillator made ...

If you are working on a PC today, there's a good chance that it's using a chip that can trace its roots down to the Intel 8088 processor. That chip launched 44 years ago today, on June 1, 1979.

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 ...

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.

“Intel has localized the Vmin Shift Instability issue to a clock tree circuit within the IA core which is particularly vulnerable to reliability aging under elevated voltage and temperatur ...

If Intel's 0x12B microcode update fixes the root cause of the stability issues then, once it's out, I can recommend Intel 13th and 14th Gen CPUs again, provided it's an unused chip and you install ...

It all started out so civilly. In 1982, AMD became a second source manufacturer of Intel 8086 and 8088 processors so IBM would use the chip in its legendary Personal Computer, and it wasn’t long ...

Intel has finally gotten a grip on its disastrous instability problems that have been the bane of some of Intel’s best processors for nearly a year, including the Core i9-13900K and Core i9 ...

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004 ... personal computers—and then the 8086 and 8088 that launched the IBM PC era.

Mobile chipset specialist Qualcomm approached Intel regarding a potential takeover, per a report in The Wall Street Journal. However, Nvidia would be a far better suitor, with the ability to pay ...

Intel stock rallied Monday as reports circulated about the future of the maligned Silicon Valley titan, though analysts question if Intel is “desperate enough” to undertake a drastic merger ...