To reduce the engineering effort needed to incorporate the 8086 into designs, Intel opted for an on-board charge pump to generate the bias voltage.

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 ...

Forty years ago, Intel released the 8086 processor, introducing the x86 architecture that underlies every PC—Windows, Mac, or Linux—produced today.

A 33-year-old Virginia mother accused of fatally shooting her young daughter was held without bond following an arraignment Tuesday before a Fairfax County judge.

Exeter police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the April burglary at an electric bike dealership that led to a brief chase during which suspects threw ...

Happy 40th birthday to one of the most important CPUs ever built -- and the beginning of the PC revolution.

In Louisiana’s congressional redistricting case, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied the state’s petition to try to halt the lawsuit based on an unusual argument that says ...