Tom's Hardware on MSN
Intel introduced the first processor in the x86 series on this day in 1978
June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU.
Curiously, the Intel 8086 was conceived as a stopgap while the more technologically ambitious 32-bit iAPX 432 struggled with ...
XDA Developers on MSN
The marvel of the microprocessor that gave rise to the PC as we know it today
Welcome to The Drive, a weekly column looking at some wacky, interesting, cool, and pivotal things within the tech space!
In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...
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