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The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors

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The Intel 8086 microprocessor is one of the most influential chips ever created; it led to the x86 architecture that dominates desktop and...
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Die shrink: How Intel scaled down the 8086 processor

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The revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor was introduced 42 years ago this month so I've been studying its die. 1 I came across t...
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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

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Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...
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Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die

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Intel introduced the 8087 chip in 1980 to improve floating-point performance on the 8086 and 8088 processors, and it was used with the ori...
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