The chip titan proposed last year that it was about time to introduce a slimmed-down, 64-bit-only version of the x86 architecture, which Intel created alongside the famous 8086 chip back in the 1970s.

While the 8086 has 3 16-bit slots in the instruction prefetcher ... Interface Unit (BIU), which effectively decouples the actual processor (Execution Unit, or EU) from the system RAM.

While the 8086 has 3 16-bit slots in the instruction prefetcher ... Interface Unit (BIU), which effectively decouples the actual processor (Execution Unit, or EU) from the system RAM.

That chip launched 44 years ago today ... The main difference between the two CPUs is that while the 8086 had a 16-bit data bus, the 8088 only had an 8-bit data bus. This small difference would ...