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 ...

There is some dispute as to which company invented the microprocessor ... also of Intel, and with help from Busicom’s Masatoshi Shima, came up with the architecture for the MCS-4 4-bit chipset ...

First, let's look at the hardware specs of the Intel 8088, via the company's own website. The Intel 8088 is actually a slightly different version of the Intel 8086, which launched a year before in ...

It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981 ... which was later renamed Athlon 64. Phenom processors came out in 2008. In 2017, AMD began shipping its Ryzen line based ...

"People in the mobile phone architecture do not buy microprocessors," Hauser added. "So if you sell microprocessors you have the wrong model. They license them. So it’s not Intel vs. ARM ...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and AMD CEO Lisa Su have joined forces to create the x86 Ecosystem Advisory ... [+] Group to influence the future direction of the dominant microprocessor architecture.