The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images of ...

Along the way, new instructions were added, but the core of the x86 instruction set was retained. And a lot of effort was spent making the same instructions faster and faster.

The x86 instruction set was first introduced by Intel in 1978 with the 8086 16-bit CPU, and the Santa Clara corporation is now planning to finally bring its computer processors into the future ...

Hardware Industry intel x86 Intel releases X86S instruction set version 1.2, killing multiple 16-bit and 32-bit features X86S gives Intel's x86 a much-needed slim down for the 64-bit age By Zo ...