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Events on Thursday 8 June 1978 1
1978Intel 8086 — the x86 architecture bornIntel introduces the 8086 on 8 June 1978 — a 16-bit microprocessor that introduces the x86 instruction set architecture. The x86 architecture — with its registers, addressing modes and instruction encoding — becomes the most enduring computer architecture in history. Every Intel Core processor sold today, every AMD Ryzen, every server in the world's data centres runs x86 code. The 8086 contains 29,000 transistors and runs at 5–10MHz. Its cheaper sibling, the 8088 (1979), is chosen by IBM for the IBM PC — cementing x86's dominance.