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 ...

Few CPUs have had the long-lasting influence that the 8086 did. It is hard to believe ... If an interrupt followed either a MOV SS or POP SS instruction, havoc ensues. The bug was a simple mistake ...

The chip titan proposed last year that it was about time to introduce a slimmed-down, 64-bit-only version of the x86 architecture, which Intel created alongside the famous 8086 chip back in the 1970s.