Home > Computing Happy 42nd Anniversary to the Original Intel 8086 and the x86 Architecture Happy 40th birthday to one of the most important CPUs ever built -- and the beginning of the PC revolution.

AMD is offering anyone who wins one of Intel's Anniversary Edition Core-i7 CPUs a free trade-in for one of its own high-powered offerings, the Threadripper 1950x. With 16 cores and 32 threads, it ...

Intel's Computex news includes a 28-core PC processor, a 5GHz Anniversary Edition chip, its upcoming Whiskey Lake architecture, and we're just getting started.

Although the Intel x86 architecture was first released with the introduction of the 8086 microprocessor in 1976, it wasn't until 1981 when an 8-bit derivative, the 8088, was chosen for the ...

The 8086 has been around since 1978, so it’s pretty well understood. As the namesake of the prevalent x86 architecture, it’s often studied by those looking to learn more about microprocessors ...

X86 architecture was launched more than 46 years ago with Intel 's 8086 microprocessor.

In celebrating the x86 architecture's 39th birthday yesterday—the 8086 processor first came to market on June 8, 1978—Intel took the rather uncelebratory step of threatening any company ...

40 years after releasing its historic 8086 processor, the one that got the x86 architecture started, Intel today announced a special limited edition anniversary processor called the Core i7-8086K.

Intel has just officially announced the Core i7 8086K CPU at its Computex press conference, going on sale on June 8 to celebrate the release of the original 8086 processor.