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Inside the 8086 processor, tiny charge pumps create a negative voltage

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Introduced in 1978, the revolutionary Intel 8086 microprocessor led to the x86 processors used in most desktop and server computing today....
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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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Reverse-engineering and comparing two Game Boy audio amplifier chips

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The Nintendo Game Boy contains an audio amplifier chip for sound through a speaker or headphones. In this post, I reverse-engineer this ch...
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