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Intel's first blockbuster chip was the 8088 – and it changed everything 45 years ago
this was the first major CPU that Intel produced that propelled the x86 architecture to the fore – and was ironically a successor to the first x86 CPU, called the 8086 Micro-processor ...
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The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
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 ...
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Reverse-Engineering The Conditional Jump Circuitry In The 8086 Processor
As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a ...
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The Intel 8088 processor launched 44 years ago today, and helped to start the PC revolution0 0
4. There had to be both an operating system and applications software available for the processor. So why did IBM ultimately pick the 8088 over the 8086? Bradley said that the final choice was due ...
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AMD Unveils Zen 3 Architecture, Ryzen 5000 CPUs With 19% IPC Uplift, Higher Boost
which continue to have the highest core counts in the x86 processor markets for both PCs and servers. With the new CPU architecture, she said, AMD is now claiming to have faster single-threaded ...