The Intel 8088 is a variant of the Intel 8086. A side effect of the 8088 design, with the slow bus and the small prefetch queue, is that the speed of code execution can be very dependent on ...

One of the oldest ideas in humanity – and one that may have predated language as we know it – is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Another adage is ...

When a revolutionary new product launches, what’s the best way to invest in its success? By buying that product-maker’s stock ...

Intel's market value has sharply declined due to missed opportunities in AI and sales losses. However, Intel is initiating a ...

Hardware hacker Dmitry Grinberg recently achieved what might sound impossible: booting Linux on the Intel 4004 ... computers—and then the 8086 and 8088 that launched the IBM PC era.

There are stripped down Linux-like systems that run on 68000 or 8088. Main issue is lack of an MMU. The first platform Unix ran on was the PDP-11 which was 16 bit. You really need 16 bits to run ...

Intel (INTC) revealed a pair of artificial intelligence chips on Tuesday as it seeks to improve its data center business and steal market share from rivals AMD (AMD) and Nvidia (NVDA). The new ...

Intel is finally addressing how hot and power-hungry its desktop CPUs have become. Intel’s new flagship Core Ultra 200S series of processors, arriving on October 24th, are focused on performance ...

Mobile chipset specialist Qualcomm approached Intel regarding a potential takeover, per a report in The Wall Street Journal. However, Nvidia would be a far better suitor, with the ability to pay ...