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Intel 8086 KL Intel D8086.jpg
Produced From 1978 to 1990s
Common manufacturer(s)
Intel, AMD, NEC, Fujitsu, Harris (Intersil), OKI, Siemens AG, Texas Instruments, Mitsubishi.
Max. CPU clock rate 5 MHz to 10 MHz
Min. feature size 3μm
Instruction set x86-16
Predecessor (8080)
Successor 80186
Package(s)
40 pin DIP
Variant 8088
The 8086[1] (also called iAPX 86) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released. The 8086 gave rise to the x86 architecture of Intel's future processors. The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus (allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips[2]), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC.
Contents
1 History 1.1 Background 1.2 The first x86 design 2 Details 2.1 Buses and operation 2.2 Registers and instructions 2.3 Flags 2.4 Segmentation 2.4.1 Porting older software 2.5 Performance 2.6 Floating point 3 Chip versions 3.1 Derivatives and clones 4 Hardware modes 5 Peripherals 6 Microcomputers using the 8086 7 Notes and references 8 External links
History
Background
In 1972, Intel launched the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor.[3] It implemented an instruction set designed by Datapoint corporation with programmable CRT terminals in mind, that also proved to be fairly general purpose. The device needed several additional ICs to produce a functional computer, in part due to it being packaged in a small 18-pin "memory-package", which ruled out the use of a separate address bus (Intel was primarily a DRAM manufacturer at the time).
Two years later, Intel launched the 8080,[4] employing the new 40-pin DIL packages originally developed for calculator ICs