Intel’s 8086 16-bit microprocessor and its 8-bit sibling, the 8088, gave the personal computer market a tremendous boost when IBM adopted the 8088 in 1981 for the original IBM PC and used 8086-family ...

IN THE BEGINNING there was the IBM PC, and it was good. Then came the PC clones—and several tangentially related machines in the 1980s that utilized the Intel x86 CPU architecture because it, well, ...

Intel on Monday quietly marked the 25-year anniversary of x86, the basic architecture underlying the chips that power most of today's PCs. Intel's first x86-based chip, the 5MHz 8086, was introduced ...

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Images: 35 years of Intel chip design Tom Krazit writes about ...

While there are many milestones in the history of computing, few are as important as the introduction of the Intel 8086 microprocessor, a 16-bit CPU that laid the foundation for the client-server, ...

Intel and AMD have teamed up to provide long-term stability and predictability of the x86 architecture, hedging against the ...

In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine, Sony’s Mark Cerny has revealed why the company decided to use the x86 processor for the PS4. Firstly, Cerny commented on why the x86 seemed a ...

Jensen compared the x86 architecture to defunct Circuit City when comparing PCs with mobile devices. Obviously he wants to convince the world that ARM is the future and that x86 doesn’t matter. The ...