Intel’s first significant CPU based in x86 turns 45 today. The 8088 Microprocessor was launched in 1979 and was Intel's first significant CPU, to bring its x86 architecture into prominence. It was the ...

These tiny chips allowed computers to come home for the first time You've probably heard this story before, or perhaps lived it: Once upon a time, computers were huge. In the 1960s, a computer with ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

Intel’s 8088 processor was released in 1979 and the 4.77 MHz processor was at the heart of the first IBM PC that was released two years later. While the processor is pretty sluggish by modern ...

(Reuters) - Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger inherited a troubled company that had lost its edge in manufacturing skills and had ceded to rivals the hugely lucrative markets for chips used in mobile phones and ...

Thirty years ago, on June 8, 1978, Intel Corp. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding “the dawn of a new era.” Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the ...

The history of Intel’s 8008 processor. Insight into the x86 architecture. Lasting legacy with modern applications. Computer Terminal Corporation (now defunct Datapoint) launched the DataPoint 3300 ...

Victor Poor, an early Intel collaborator and one of the minds behind the company's early microprocessors, has died aged 79. Poor joined Intel in 1969 through existing employee Stanley Mazor, after ...

(Reuters) - Semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan is set to take the helm at chipmaker Intel, inheriting a challenging legacy from his predecessor Pat Gelsinger. Intel, once the undisputed leader ...