Alongside AMD, Intel dominates a market that many argue it first cornered 45 years ago with the launch of its 8088 Micro-processor. Released in 1979, this was the first major CPU that Intel ...

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 ...

On the cusp of celebrating the 30th anniversary of its first microprocessor -- the Intel 8088 microprocessor was launched in 1979 -- Intel introduced its newest microprocessor, the Intel Core i7, ...

1981 - Intel's 8088 microprocessor, with 29,000 transistors, becomes the brain in the IBM Personal Computer, kicking off the era of personal computing. 1982 - Advanced Micro Devices, co-founded in ...

A quick look at the pinouts of an Intel 8086 & 8088 processor reveals a 20 bit address bus. There was high demand for the ability to address 1 meg (2^20) of address space, and Intel delivered.