We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular ...

So why did IBM ultimately pick the 8088 over the 8086? Bradley said that the final choice was due to a familiar reason: it helped make the PC cheaper to produce: We chose the 8088 because of its 8 ...

The iconic IBM PC attributed its prominence to the power ... and was ironically a successor to the first x86 CPU, called the 8086 Micro-processor, that had been made some years before.

The brains of the PC is a central processing unit (CPU) made by Intel or AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). It stems from the Intel 8086 (x86) architecture in the IBM PC in 1981. Following is a brief ...

Batteries weren’t up to the task of powering the electroluminescent display and Intel 8086 processor ... applications and it didn’t follow the IBM PC standard, which was rapidly becoming ...

The IBM PC spawned the basic architecture that grew into the dominant Wintel platform we know today. Once heavy, cumbersome and power thirsty, it’s a machine that you can now emulate on a single ...

It missed out on the deal to provide the OS for IBM's new Personal Computer, but its first attempt ... assisted multitasking ...

Intel and AMD have formed an advisory group for the x86 processor platform, hoping to “shape the future of the world’s most widely used computing architecture.” Its ...

IBM is over a century old, a massive multinational even before the dawn of the computer age. Through research and innovation, IBM came to dominate the nascent market for mainframe computers, parlaying ...

IBM today launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog, a new set of services that aims to make programming quantum computers easier by abstracting away many of the complexities of working with these ...

Eagle is the first IBM processor to surpass 100 qubits IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers. These machines could revolutionise ...

Quantum utility was achieved in 2023 when IBM and UC Berkeley demonstrated that quantum computers could extract results from quantum computing problems beyond the ability of brute-force classical ...