The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...

Intended as an indirect successor to the successful 8080 (which was followed up by the equally successful 8086 ... Intel being hardly a struggling company in 1985 when the iAPX 432 architecture ...

It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief history of PC CPUs, starting with the most current. Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium ...

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 ...

Intel is a name that's almost synonymous with the CPUs that power some of the best PCs and best laptops around today. Alongside AMD, Intel dominates a market that many argue it first cornered 45 ...

Back in the last century, Intel saw itself faced with a need to have ‘second source’ suppliers of its 8088 and 8086 processors ... an integral part of the x86 architecture.