What is Intel 8088?
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| Manufacturer: | Intel | |
| Model: | 8088 | |
| Year: | 1979 | |
| Transistors: | 29,000 | |
| Microns: | 3.0µ | |
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In the mid-1960s, Intel co-founder Robert Noyce discovered a way to shrink electronic circuitry onto a single silicon chip. Over time, Intel engineers parlayed that technology into a logic device that could retrieve application instructions from semiconductor memory. In 1978, Intel unveiled the 8086, the first commercially viable 16-bit processor. Intel's CPU made it possible for general businesspeople to access processing power that was once the province of a mainframe machine that filled an entire room. When IBM chose the 8-bit version of Intel's CPU, the 8088, for its first desktop PC, it sparked a revolution. The 8088 is, for all practical purposes, identical to the 8086. The only difference is that it handles its address lines differently than the 8086. This chip was the one that was chosen for the first IBM PC, and like the 8086, it is able to work with the 8087 math coprocessor chip. The prefetch queue of the 8088 is 4 bytes, as opposed to the 8086's 6 bytes. |
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